Me: I don’t really know how to write it… Actually I’m beginning to think that every book I write I’m going to start by saying, “Okay, I don’t do this but…”
Arkem: I was about to say.
Me: The last one turned out okay, though, right?
I don’t write thrillers. (But the first real book-like-thing I wrote was a thriller.)
I swore off writing science fiction as a teenager. (But Drink Me is science fiction.)
I write young adult fiction for the older age bracket. (But I just finished an adult novel, I’m suspiciously eyeing off a middle grade book, and the thing I just started to write? Yeah, I don’t even know, but I’m getting the feeling the protagonists are about fifteen.)
I write non-chronologically. (But I wrote Drink Me in a purely linear fashion.)
I’m usually thinking about the next book in the series or even the book after that. (But this story I just started? Pretty sure it’s a stand-alone.)
I’m a pantser not a plotter. (But right now… yeah. Not so much.)
I don’t know what I’m doing. (That one’s true.)
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
Angela Scott
09/01/2014
Holy crap! I do this ALL the time. I sit down and go, “I don’t know what I’m doing, but let’s give this a try anyway.”
I totally relate to this AND it’s good to try different things and not let our “I don’t know what I’m doing” get in our way.
Nice.
Kandace Mavrick
09/01/2014
The more I do it the more… well, ‘confident’ is not really the word, but I think I panic less when I find myself trying something new these days. And my writer’s toolbox is growing 🙂