RTW: Little Wisps and Threads of Ideas
Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway's
contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question to write
about on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination
and get everybody's unique take on the topic.
This week's topic: What do you hope to be writing in one year? Three? Five?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
I love this question. I love to think ahead, to dream, to know that when I'm finished with my current manuscript, and the next one, there will be more. My mind is filled with little wisps and threads of ideas.
In one year, WAITING FOR THE SUN, my current WIP, will be finished, revised, polished, perhaps on a journey to publication. I'm hopeful that the haunted piano/time travel idea will take off and I'll at least have a healthy draft finished. In fact, I'm tempted to try to finish this draft of WFTS so I can take a crack at the piano for NaNo.
I've got another novel idea brewing -- a couple of months ago I had a very detailed dream about a story that I had started (but did not finish) at least ten years ago. I hadn't thought about this story in a very long time, and in fact it was not much more than a few characters, a setting, and an event - a wedding. But my dream worked it all out for me, added a good dose of conflict, a little romance, bam. The story takes place in Door County, Wisconsin, so I'd guess I'd better plan that writing retreat.
Three years from now, perhaps I'll be working on a sequel to WFTS. These characters are such a part of me already, and even though it's not finished, I have a vague idea of how the book ends. There's much more to tell, I'm certain.
I'd like to go back to the one that started it all for me - my first attempt at a YA novel, titled MY LIFE IN A FOG. It's mostly finished, in a very rough draft sort of way, as is that one about the river, which needs some major revisions, too.
Five years from now? Who knows. I just know that no matter what, I will still be writing YA.
Here's another creepy photo, just for fun.
How about you? What does the future hold for you and your writing?