I know I’m supposed to be proof reading Drink Me. Writing synopses and query letters and other practical things. Failing that, I should be editing Path, or working up this middle grade thing.* But what I have been doing is having migraine-style headaches which stop my brain from functioning.
And then last Friday night I couldn’t sleep. It rained and I wrote and did not sleep.
And in the morning I discovered that instead of sleeping I had written about five thousand words, made about a jillion typos, and apparently coined the word ‘undisgusting’.
And I was writing a new book.
I looked at this thing that was kind of frantically adolescent in tone and went, Screw the book I’m meant to be working on, I think I just found my next side-project.
I don’t know what it is yet, or even if it really is anything. Right now all I have is the veriest sketch of a young adult urban fantasy… something. I have two characters, a world, and a concept. And an itch at the back of my brain that wants me to write.
* Because I think I might actually need an outline to work from with that one. So weird.
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
platform thing 
D. James Fortescue
20/09/2013
It is annoying how your brain refuses to co-operate once you get close to the end of a project. You either hit a barrier and struggle to find a way around it, or another idea pops into your head to distract you completely.
Scratch that itch, and hopefully once it’s satiated it allows you to focus on the proof reading and editing =)
Kandace Mavrick
20/09/2013
I hope, I hope. Just… a day or two to poke at this thing and stretch out my writing muscles a little, and then I’ll be back on the hard stuff.