First Official Check-In! How are you all doing????? :-)

[jbknowles]

Hi everyone!

Today is our first official check-in. Line on up and let us all know how you're doing in the comments! Need some encouragement? Advice? A high-five? We're here for you!

xo

I want to hear from...

afraclose
Amy Fisher Quinn
amygreenfield
annemariepace
barbarabaker
blackeyedsue21
boreal_owl
briankell
chickwith_stick
cfaughnan
cynleitichsmith
dampscribbler
Elisabeth
goddess57
Heather Jessen
jbknowles
jeniwrites
jjhoutman
josiecv
katiemas
katywriter
kaz_mahoney
kimmiepoppins
Kip Wilson
Kristina
lisa_schroeder
lisaschulman
lizjonesbooks
marvelousmarv
Meaghan
MelanieACrowder
Menaha
Michelle Davison Kane

Comments

[blackeyedsue21]

You guys! My plan was all set at the beginning of JoNo but I am so stuck! The plan was to revise a book I finished a couple of months ago that I had put away to stew. Then I started this new book and I am so excited about the concept, I'm just not sure I have the guns to pull it off yet. This book deserves mad skills, y'all.
I think my new book has much more of a chance at selling but I love my first book too. I don't know which book to work on so I haven't been working on either (other than in my head). I wish I could do both but I know I need to focus on one at a time. HELP!!

[lisa_schroeder]

My friend Laini Taylor would call that new idea the slutty new idea. :) The slutty idea likes to come around and throw itself at you when you have other work to do. It will seduce you if you let it!! :)

Here is what I would do. I would do the work on the revision as planned. And I would buy some notecards or a journal or whatever works for you as far as starting to plot out the new book and use that to put down your thoughts about the new book to help you feel like you are at least doing something with those thoughts in your head. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting some of the initial thoughts down to quiet those new voices in your head.

Wanting to get to the new book could be a huge motivator to finish the revisions on the other one, right? Use it to your advantage and use it as a reward. When you finish the revisions, then you can start in on the new book.

Good luck!

[josiecv]

Haha. The slutty new idea! I love that. It happens to me all the time. I agree with Lisa. Take some notes, but keep working on the revision if you can.

[blackeyedsue21]

I've always said that Laini Taylor is a genius.(Well, maybe not always but at least for the last few years.) I forgot to mention that I've already written 25k on the new book while I was giving myself a break from the 1st.
BUT I think that using the slutty new book as a motivation to revise the first book is a great idea. Fun way to look at it! Thanks!

[amygreenfield]

Another vote for plugging away with the old book! It's so easy to be seduced by a new idea, but every time I revise a book I learn so much.

Whatever you do, I wish you lots of luck!