What do you do when you’ve been on a creative binge, and you find yourself taking a break? If you’ve written a novel (or most of it) in November, and now you’re sitting around, wondering what comes next?
Fear not! There is plenty of work still to be done.
For now, I will catch up on my much-neglected reading list. I’ve got piles and piles of books that aren’t going to read themselves. I want to pick up the rest of Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter series. Highly recommended. I’m also reading books on blogs and fiction book marketing, so that should be interesting.
I’ve also got several podcasts that need listening to, but I haven’t set up a proper podcast catcher yet. I’ll get around to it eventually.
I started riding my bike again. This in itself is a good thing.
Now that my rush to reach 50K words is passed, I can start re-working the outline and plot of the novel, and spend some quality time world-building and fleshing out the setting, which will directly impact the story further down the road.
This will require me to schedule time for editing and re-vamping scenes, and fleshing out parts of the story that need fixing to align with the setting and antagonists. I’ve got lots of ideas and several may work, but I need to work through them to nail it down, especially if I’m going to expand it into a multi-book series. And there’s the real possibility of trying to write the book chapter-by-chapter here, on the blog… that would be interesting, to say the least.
Plus I’m still writing a weekly blog post for The Badass Forge, mostly cycling-related stuff. And of course, I have to come up with something insightful and witty to post here, at least occasionally.
I’d say, overall, I’m still going to be pretty busy, but now I have the freedom to work on those things when they’re not interfering with family time.
Let’s get to work!