Shifting Focus

I’ve touched on this a few times, but I think it’s time to complete Scott’s second book. Life presented some distractions, but it feels like it’s time. Survival, work, and play when I wasn’t working caused the trilogy of trilogies to take a backseat. However, my life has been restructured in a way, allowing for more time on my projects.

Even though I started a new business (styling in the Elements), there is plenty of room to keep writing. I’ve actually started taking on copywriting and ghostwriting clients again, as well. I almost forgot how much I enjoy it.

During my hiatus, Scott and his cohorts have kept me company. The characters have continued to reveal things to me, and I can’t wait to get those things out of my head and onto the paper/screen so that you may discover these things at some point, as well.

In addition to that, there have been a few new seeds planted for other stories. However, I won’t let myself work on those until Scott’s story is told in its entirety. I have several projects going at once, but he definitely needs some attention.

I sometimes wonder if other authors and storytellers have their characters and ideas spark, spin, and take over the way mine do. There have been several days and nights where I slipped into another world as the characters and stories play out in my mind. Then evolve.

They have prevented me from sleeping and completing other projects. I suppose it could be because they’re real in my head. I know them. And they know me.

Another reason I feel compelled to finish their stories is because I won’t allow myself to read certain things until these stories are out of my head. I don’t want to subconsciously include something I read somewhere else, out of respect to my fellow authors – and my integrity.

I recently shared about the series with someone and they seemed kind of excited about it. That made me excited about it. Then I remembered that I’m the only one with much knowledge of anything beyond Scott’s first installment.

Speaking of that, is it presumptuous to give someone a copy of my book if they’ve shown interest? I had a discussion with a friend about that. She suggested it, but I told her that makes me feel kind of weird. I want to assume that someone wants to read it just because they’ve asked me some questions about it.

Self promotion can be difficult for sure. Sometimes there’s a thin line between people being polite about their interest and actually wanting to read it. I don’t think it’s necessarily a lack of confidence on my part, but more being humble.

It seems selfish to allow myself to continue to be so distracted that I keep it to myself. I’d like to get the entire series out of my head so that it will definitely outlive my existence on this planet. Afterall, life is short. I don’t want Scott, Serenity, Shyla or the rest of them to die with me.