What Comes Next?

Whenever I finish the draft of a manuscript, whether it’s the first draft or the last draft, I like to take some time and spend with my children. The past few days we’ve been putting together puzzles, doing crafts, and playing out in the back yard. All fun things.

Yet, now that I’ve completed one work in progress, it’s time to start thinking about the next one.  My oldest daughter is always complaining, “When are you going to write something I can read?”

She’s going into third grade this year.

It’s like the puzzles my son has had me laying on the floor putting together lately, which new project to start piecing together do I choose?

Sometimes as a writer you get this thing called “writer’s block”, fortunately for me that’s not happening. My problem is I’ve got tons of ideas, like little puzzle pieces waiting to be put together. If only to choose which ones to work on first…

I think this week I’ll be retreating into the research mode, that stage before actually diving into writing. I have another work in progress from before “FORGOTTEN REINS” that  I’m thinking of picking up again, then there’s always writing a story for my daughter, and of course a screen play that I’ve been hashing out in my head for a few months.

Hmmm… the choices…

In the mean time, my youngest daughter’s strawberry shortcake patches have come in for her backpack and my oldest daughter has requested I teach her how to sew. Both adventures on their own, we’ll see if that leads me and my research to picking up the pieces of the next work in progress.

I hope your weekend leads to a great adventure as I’m sure mine will.