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I’d be writing this whole post myself, but I think Kiandra has put it best, so I steal quote from her post.

Coming up with an initial idea for a story is most likely the easiest bit. Then you have to work on the idea; you have to create characters, a plot, settings and all the rest. This can take a long time, depending on how much effort you put into it all. Eventually you manage to finally get everything worked out; what happens here, who falls in love with who, who dies, how it all ends, stuff like that. You think to yourself “finally, I can start writing the story.”

So you’ve written the first couple of thousand words and everything seems to be going along nicely. The world your characters live in is starting to take shape and your story has really begun. Then comes that unpredictable problem that has certainly plagued me for a very long time; you come up with another fantastic idea (or so you think anyway).

Now what you want to do is work on that idea, develop it and create the characters, the plot, the settings and everything else. But wait…aren’t you all ready writing another story?

I know exactly what she means. I had been working on The Superhero Diaries, but when that stalled along came more and more ideas for He Came From The Sea. And then, while I was working on the beginning of He Came From The Sea, back came The Dead Girl (a fragment/off-shoot/mini story you might have already seen). And these are all ideas that have been plotted out and actually started, not ideas bounced around.

I both hate and love my brain sometimes. Do you have the same problem?

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As some of you may or may not have noticed, the projects page of Working Title has received a serious overhaul. Now it is not simply a page for Blood Bound and a few other short pieces: instead it is about Blood Bound, The Superhero Diaries and a third, secret project, Mirror, Mirror.

So check out the projects page, read up on The Superhero Diaries and Mirror, Mirror and, of course, check out the opening scene from The Superhero Diaries!

And for those of you wondering about Blood Bound… my beta is currently on the last few chapters in the first round of editing and should be complete in the next few days.

So what does this mean for BB? Well, the first round is smoothing out sentences, cutting out bloat, keeping things in line with previous statements, and Ameripicking (one thing I love about TSD is that the narrator is a kiwi, so I get to keep my natural “writing accent” you might say :P), amongst other things. As for the second round we get to go in more heavily… JK probably can explain better than me - she’s beta’d published stuff before. And since she’s been ill these last few days, please go ahead and give her some comment love. She deserves it.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the little snippets here and there. I promise to have the spellchecked-draft of Mirror, Mirror’s prologue up soon. It’s almost done.

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My latest addiction is Fandom!Secrets. Usually I giggle at a few (like this one!) but there aren’t usually any that I identify with majorly.

Until today.

For a moment I actually stopped and wondered who was inside my head, because I have actually said those sorts of thing to my friends and betas.

One of those betas has already written a piece of fanfiction based on Blood Bound, and is telling me about the subject of her second idea.

I am an actual livejournal interest already (albeit, not many people have me listed ) and the aforementioned beta is in the process of creating a fan comm (appropriately called Vampire Inn: Accommodation for the Undead). At least she will know it really is the first one, and can claim so.

So, to the writer of secret #144 on the latest fandom!secrets entry, I know exactly what you mean, and how you feel.

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