Sketch-style writing -- Kicking my muse into high gear

Producing a first draft in two months and a completed book in six months has kicked my writing brain into high gear.

It doesn't matter where I am or what I'm doing, my muse is firing on all cylinders.

I think a large part of that is due to not only having made the devision to write my next Raine book in six months (and the one after that in another six months), it's that I feel comfortable with the decision. Yes, it's a scary proposition, which is one of the reasons why I did NaNo -- to force myself to write 50K in one month and then 100K (a complete first draft) in two months. (And yes, I made my word count last night.)

And I announced my intentions here -- to attempt to finish Raine books 5 and 6 in one year, as opposed to nine months each.

If all goes as planned, next year this time, I'll be writing two proposals -- for the next books set in Raine's world (that sounds an awful lot like "Wayne's World," doesn't it?) and an urban fantasy/international thriller (kinda like Tom Clancy with magic, monsters, and mages) that's been in my head (and in my computer files) since before getting the offer for MLTF. That project scares the crap out of me, but in a good way. Every time I read the notes for it, I want to start writing it right then. It's a series that's exciting to me, yet kind of like looking off a high dive -- a REALLY high dive. It intimidates the hell out of me.

And I can't wait to get started.

Lisa