3 Novels at Once?

Is this even a good idea? Or is it some new way for me to avoid starting a second draft?

Writers constantly take input from the world and make it into something new...

I go to bed with ideas and wake up with them in my head. Sometimes they come at inopportune times. Sometimes they come when I don't want them to - when I'm sitting in a meeting at work, when I'm in a theater watching a movie, or in the middle of a conversation with a friend. Rarely do they come when I'm sitting at my desk, pen in hand, waiting for them to strike.

Pro Tip:

The physical act of long hand writing produces better ideas for me than sitting at my laptop and typing. (I can't decide if that's a mitten or a tiny penis and scrotum? Or maybe it's a witch with a big nose and wild hair? Let's say it's a mitten shall we? Again these are all ideas...)

Currently I've completed two first drafts, one is a horror sci fi tale about a girl coming of age and the other is a contemporary romance story about comfort and pain and as much as I love both of these stories and characters, I have a lot of ideas rattling around in my head. Most sit in the back of my mind, percolating for years until the main story has boiled down to the core and I'm ready to sit down and write it out. But now we're coming upon my favorite season of Fall and my thoughts turn to the best time of the year. These next few months are full of pumpkins, cool nights, warm fires, and cups of hot chocolate overflowing with fluffy white pillows of whipped cream. Ghost stories told around a burning crackling campfire, putting on your favorite sweater when you see rain pearls crawling down your window, and diving under the covers of your warm bed and snuggling up with a good book! That kind of autumn vibe puts me into a certain mood. I've had this idea for quite a while (and if you're subscribed to my monthly newsletter, you'll know what it is!) I'm debating starting a full draft of it now.

My process has been to take all the time I need to work out a first draft then let it sit for 6 weeks while I do other things and try to forget what I've written, but then I thought, life is short, and I have so many books in me to tell. Why not write another book during that 6 week break? So that's how I developed two novels at the same time. And now the siren call of a third book idea comes around. So I'm already naming characters and trying to figure out the setting. I think I'll be fine writing another book as long as I can do this one quick. Then I'll just take turns with the three of them in 6-7 week stretches. Find out what I'm made of - literary wise.

So what season is your favorite? What do you think you'd like to do in bunches? What things do you do where other people might label you crazy? Tell me in the comments below! Have a great week!

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