So in an effort to figure just what I really have out here on my computer writing-wise…SCARY THING 😯 I went through my computer files this past weekend. Listed off all the partially written stories I have, if there’s a synopsis and or blurb, how many pages.
I have a lot of unfinished stories.. :coffee2: I have my fair share of completed books, but just tons of stories I’ve started and abandoned for one reason or another. But I do like having them listed all out. Now I can weed out what stories are viable. Throw the list of vague ideas in a file to simmer. Yes, organization. Who would have thought?? I did find some awesome start of stories. I’ve printed them out and dropped them in files in my writing drawer. I’ll look through them periodically to see if any of them catch my attention again and beg to be written out to completes.
and don’t listen to this if obsessively anal things bug you… :secret:
I listed them all…everyone of them… on a spreadsheet… :rofl:
So I have been beating my head against the wall. Trying to figure out the internal conflict for my hero in my story. And I had this LIGHTBULB moment. 😯 Here I am trying to whip my story into a category proposal. Cut out some secondary characters. Scale back the heroine’s POV. Figure out the hero’s goal. Then it came to me…this ISN’T a category story. No matter how much I want it to be. It’s a single title. DUH. Just because I want to get a proposal back on the desk of an editor from a category house who has been giving me good feedback on my submissions…doesn’t mean this story is going to fit the bill. It so isn’t.
Single Title. That is all there is to it. :mad2: I can at least admit this now 
Yes, it’s Magic March. Time to make magic with our writing. Of course, the only way to make magic is to put your butt in the chair and write… :mad2:
So I’m once again stuck on internal GMC for my characters. I don’t know why this hangs me up. But it does. Every time. I’ve told myself to get over it and just learn to do it. But EVERY TIME it happens again. I usually get one the characters pretty nailed down. But then I have the hardest time with the other character.
This time my heroine has trust issues. She’s been hurt. People she loves leave her. (yes, trite and done a lot, but I think I handled it well). But then the hero? Well, right now he doesn’t have any flaws and is pretty damn perfect. Yes, I know, this is a problem isn’t it??:crazy2:
