Saturday, October 13, 2012

Good Problems?


The baseball playoffs are over for the Orioles, so I get to reclaim the evenings I spent in front of the TV. It was a great run, watching the team duke it out for AL East title, then lose a tough series to the Yankees. While I’m sure I’ll still put on some playoff games here and there, I’m getting a swath of time back.

November is around the corner. I’ll be putting that time to good use.

I’m still editing a previous work (baseball distracted me) and I need to figure out what I’m going to do for NaNoWriMo once November is here. I have a few ideas to kick around and flesh out. It’s always good to have choices, right?

Right?

Here’s the problem: I can (and almost always do) read multiple books at a time without a problem. I’m positive I can’t do that with writing. One of these ideas has to emerge as the best. Do I continue with the same character in the mystery series I favor? Do I go back to my world-traveling secret agent and chronicle his third grand adventure? Do I develop the YA idea that I had and try a genre I’ve never written and have only infrequently read? (Does the Harry Potter series count as YA?)

November looms, and a decision looms. But this is a good problem to have. Right?

(For the record, I think it is a good problem to have. And if the Orioles were still playing and complicating my writing schedule, that would be a good problem, too.)

Happy writing.

1 comment:

  1. Funny I was just at the Con and Harry Potter is defined as YA, but technically it starts as Middle Grade because of his age *mind boggling* Personally I'd go with Youthful Urban Fantasy, or something or other. *grins*

    I too have been in the place where I was looking into November with multiple idea in my head. thankfully once Novemeber arrived they basically settled things amoung themselves and told m e which one I was to write. (It ptobably helped that everyone in my head wanted to squish the vilest villian I've created to date.) *grins*

    (I know so helpful)
    :} Cathryn

    ReplyDelete