I sent Alien Desires to my editor and decided to write the next book in that series. But what to write? I know who the male main character is, but who would be his love interest? Did the story take place on this Earth or his planet (also called Earth)?
I don’t usually brainstorm with myself when it comes to stories, and I certainly don’t plot (tried that once—not fun), but I wanted to start writing. I just didn’t know what to write about. So I wrote down questions. Basically, “what if” questions.
I don’t have a lot of answers to those questions, but at least I came up with a title: The Alien’s Change of Heart. This Saturday my writing group is having a huge brainstorming event. I got my questions ready and hopefully someone will trigger something in me that says: THAT’S IT! It’s happened in the past (with Ghostly Interlude), so I am confident it will happen this time, too.
But I loved that a great “what if” question came to me and it was from a tiny scene in Alien Desires. I basically had it all set up in that book and didn’t realize it. Don’t you love it when that happens?
In the meantime, I have started writing something. Whether or not I keep any of it doesn’t matter. I’M WRITING!!!
Here’s what I read since my last update:
Book 9
Title: Elsewhere
Year of publication: 2020
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: Horror
Series: N/A
# of Pages: 353
Paper or plastic: Trade paperback
How obtained: Purchased
Blurb from Book: Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep.
Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object—something he calls “the key to everything”—and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes at once familiar and bizarre, wondrous and terrifying. And Jeffy and Amity can’t help but wonder, could Michelle be just a click away?
Jeffy and Amity aren’t the only ones interested in the device. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined to use its grand potential for profound evil. Unless Amity and Jeffy can outwit him, the place they call home may never be safe again.
Recommend: Yes
My thoughts: This book made me so tense at parts that I had to stop reading. A truly horrifying story. Yeah, I loved it.
Today is expected to get up to 70. It’s nice and sunny out, too. I think I’m gonna go for a walk. It’s been awhile and the nerve pain in my chest has been fading. I wish it was gone, but I’ll settle for fading…for now.
Happy Reading!
Stacy
4 comments:
Write, write, write!
It was around seventy here today as well. Spring has arrived.
Alex - I'd like to think spring has arrived, but it'll be in the 40s this weekend. Brrrrr.
Yeah! That sounds like a Good Day to me. Good luck with the brainstorming session.
Tanja - Brainstorming session was great. I know exactly what direction to take my book.
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