Getting In The Mood

So the tennis is over and it’s time to get down to some real work on my next novel. I started this particular story well over four years ago and left it floundering around the forty thousand word mark. Something I’ve tended to do ever since I decided to write a book. Ideas are not a problem but getting passed a certain threshold is. Having a beginning and an end is all well and good, it’s filling out the middle that’s the hard part.

I’ve written one ‘finished’ book. A romantic comedy In Too Deep (aka Hit The Ground Running) about a writer who falls in love, goes through some changes and manages to get the girl in the end. Not exactly a taxing story but it was FUN to do and it got rid of a lot of … pent up emotion. I came away from this novel with a nice glow. It might not be the next Nick Hornby but it’s finished and that, for me, is the real buzz.

Onto the next goal. Another finished book. I have two unfinished works: Relative Justice a crime novel and Finding Isabella a romantic thriller. As Relative Justice (aka Macintyre) is the oldest project I decided to go for that … It’s a complete re-write, same story idea but different plot. I think it works 🙂

So, the next hurdle is drumming up the enthusiasm. How do I do that? I choose quiet. Turn off the internet, the mobile phone, put work on hold for a while and just do it. I’m lucky because I can stop work for a bit, but I’ve been in that situation where I couldn’t and it sucks, big time. But if you can get away from it all, it’s the best thing possible. Other’s might disagree, but it works for me.

 

Updated 15/09/2015:

Relative Justice (Part One) is now ready to read!