Current Project: Doctor in Petticoats
Status: page 164
I envy Alice, Eli, and those of you who work on one project at a time. I bow to your one track minds and the ability to focus on a story so completely you eat, sleep, and breath nothing else.
These days I feel like I'm being split in fourths, with eight main characters vying for my attention. There's the WIP I'm slowly putting to paper and agonizing over whether it is moving along fast enough, is it realistic, how do I sustain the emotion and keep the reader turning the pages? Then I have the characters from the paranormal I sent a query and partial to an editor that I'm cleaning up as well. There I'm adding emotion and digging deep into why they do things. And then I have the Christmas novella characters wanting to come out and play. The hero in that story is so strong in my mind there are times he dwarfs the hero of my WIP, shoving him aside and causing a fist fight to gain my attention. Then there is the story in the works I'm corroborating with another author- and whenever she writes and says she thought about this or her character is doing this, the heroine in that story flashes in my mind and starts asserting her aggressive nature upon me and I cower and want to leave the characters of the WIP in an embrace and head on over and help her find her sister.
So do tell- How do you lock the characters not of your WIP away and keep them and yourself happy? Or do I just succumb to the straight jacket and hope for some peace and quiet locked away from my computer and all the tings that inspire me?
