Writing

The other day I realized I had written a total of six books in my indie author career. However, at the moment there is only one available, soon to be two. My first book took me three years to write. Before that, I had always gotten in my way about writing. I would start a book and then just keep writing and writing and never finish. Was I chasing perfection? Who knows.

After I released my first book, I was informed that there was a contest, and I had to write a book in under a month. There was only one time before this that I sat down and pulled out 80K+ words in under a month, so I wasn’t sure I could do it. There was motivation though, as a contract from a publishing house was being dangled in front of me.

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Long story short, I did it. My second book, Worth Waiting For. Though ultimately I didn’t like the language in the contract, I bailed and added the story to my incomplete series.

I guess I bring this up as I have always been one to take forever to write a novel. Though I released three pretty close together in 2023, that being said, I had worked on them starting back in 2020. I’ve since pulled them as they just weren’t that great if I’m honest. However, I think there was another challenge there. I was told by multiple people that there was no way I could redeem Nigel Hartagan, the character from my first book, My Daze With the Dark Muse. In those three books, I did just that. However, as I look back, it wasn’t a true journey for all the characters.

Sure, Nigel can be a good guy, and Daze is truly his cautionary tale, but the three books that I released afterwards, I think, just missed the mark. That’s the one thing I guess I love about being an indie is that I can go back and change things.

So while going through chemo, I had some nasty side effects, and low energy was one, but somehow in dealing with it, inspiration surged, and I wrote a book. Much grittier, spicier and truer to who the characters needed to be. Then I think, what about those other three books? The Gen X’er in me thinks. Hey clean those books up too and release them as well. It would be like a choose-your-own adventure. In this timeline, this happens, and in that timeline, this happens. I don’t know, but it might be amusing.

No matter, I have two more books to finish that are almost done before the chemo brain book is released.

What do you think about the choose-your-own-adventure?

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