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How To Manage Your Creative Output

You have two great ideas at the same time – which one do you work on first?

Chances are you’re like me, and you have a lot of things going on inside that magnificent brain of yours at the same time. And chances are that you’re also like me in that you wish you could work on all of them simultaneously. If you’ve been following my blog earlier this year, you know this is my year of a thousand projects, my ever-lasting spring-cleaning, my attempt at getting through a lot of things that have been lying around for too long, and I wish I could just do it all at once.

It’s been going really well. I’ve polished a few drafts, queried a couple novels, and a little over a month ago I started my biggest project yet. I have a finished draft for a novel, but it’s a mess. It needs a complete overhaul, I need to revise all of it, go through the character gallery, re-plot the whole damn thing — and I haven’t even finished reading through it yet.

Then came my predicament – there was a call for submissions.

A popular online magazine and publisher wanted short story. The genre was right up my alley. I loved the theme. I had nothing else to do, right? Why not write a short story?

Except I did have other things to do! A loooot of things. A whole list of things.

Writing already takes a back seat to a lot of other things I do. The day job, for one. Chores around the house. Hanging out with my wife. Hanging out with other people. Playing in a couple of bands. (I try not to let music get in the way of writing, but it’s difficult when the bands affect six other people).

I already have a pretty decent schedule. All my writing happens in the mornings before work. I have no other commitments then, so that way, there’s nothing else that gets in the way. Anything I don’t get done in the morning has to wait for tomorrow.

So, when it comes to my list of writing things to get through, there wasn’t really room for starting anything new. I was in the middle of getting my head around this beautiful, weird mess of a novel, it would be silly to push all that away to write short stories, right?

Of course it’s not. Of course I wrote the short story. My big novel project had no hard deadline, so I wrote, revised, rewrote three times, edited it, sent it to my betas, and submitted it two days ago. There was never a question about whether I was doing it or not. The question was always about how to justify it. How do I carve out the time and make sure I don’t lose momentum when coming back to what I’m supposed to do?

The question was always about how to justify it.

I didn’t really end up doing anything special. I just stopped dead in my tracks with the other project, focused solely on the short story for a couple of weeks, and now I’m ready to jump back in to my novel. It was the fact that I didn’t have a good plan for returning to my other project that prompted this whole blog post. I realized I should have had a plan.

Here’s two things I wish I did:

Should have written down my thoughts on the project before I stopped. I was very focused on just this one project up until I stopped working on it, and I had a lot of thoughts and ideas about it. Now when I’m returning to it, I feel like I have to start all over again.Should have laid out a clear plan for where to pick it back up. Was I still in the middle of reading through the first draft and taking notes? Great, jot that down. Did I need to work out an idea about two characters? Okay, which ones?

One good thing I realized I ended up doing, without even planning to, was that I left in the middle of everything. I hadn’t even finished the page I was reading, I just marked the spot, closed the document and left to do something else. This has helped me pick it back up, because the part I was working on wasn’t finished. I use the exact same trick when I’m drafting a new story and I have to call it a day. I’ll leave the story in the middle of a sentence, maybe even a word, instead of finishing up at a logical place. This forces me to retrace my steps and get back to the same headspace.

So now that I’ve jumped back into the novel, I’m slowly getting to grips with it again. The lesson here is that of course you should work on multiple projects at a time if you want to, be that the same month, week, day or even during a singular writing session. If that’s how you work, roll with it.

But make a plan. Leave little notes for yourself, and make sure you know where and how to pick a project back up. There’s nothing worse than thinking you’ll remember something, only to realize you’re not in that same headspace when you come back around.

How do you juggle your creative interests? Are you hyper-focused on one project at a time, or do you end up doing a little bit of everything, like me? Let me know in the comments!

As always, I would absolutely love it if you checked out my books. I write crime thrillers and psychological horror novels, and I write science-fiction and fantasy short stories. As an indie author I appreciate every single one of my readers, and I love it when people enjoy my work.

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Short Story Contest! – Something Or Other Publishing

Last year, I had the honor of being a curator for the Something Or Other Publishing annual short story contest in the thriller and horror category, and this year it’s back! There’s plenty of prizes to win and loads of ways to enter, check out the official call for submission below:

Something Or Other Publishing provides an extraordinary chance for aspiring authors to show off their work, compete for cash awards, and get their writings published.

Our Annual Short Story Contest honors excellence in writing short stories by awarding talented writers with numerous guaranteed cash prizes (totaling over $5,000 this year) and a publishing contract to get their stories out to the world.

In addition to the winners, qualified writers can receive a contract offer to publish their work in one or more carefully curated anthologies and other projects under production with royalties generally above industry standards.

This year, they’re taking all categories, except poetry and screenplays, with word counts ranging from 2000 – 5000. So if you you’re sitting on a bunch of cool stories that you don’t know what to do with, or if you have an idea that has been building in the corner of your mind, now is the time to get it down on paper!

Check out the contest here!

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Sign up for the 2024 WriteHive Conference!

I’m sure you already got your tickets, but just in case you haven’t – the annual WriteHive Conference is this weekend, from June 7- 9!

Tickets are free (though you are more than welcome to leave a donation), and they can be found right here!

The conference includes:

TalksWorkshopsPanelsLive pitchesAuthor readings

So run along, what are you even waiting for, sign up and get your tickets today!

I’ve heard there might even be a special treat in it for you if you come to the reading of a certain psychological horror (And by that I mean my book, At The Gate, by me, Trey Stone!)

My Biggest Project Yet

I’m spending 2024 doing some tidying up. Essentially, I’m going through all my old projects, my forgotten manuscripts, things I wrote ages ago and put away in a cloud folder somewhere, and I’m doing some spring cleaning. I made a plan at the start of the year, which you can read about here, and I’ve stuck to it, and honestly, I’ve managed to be very efficient, which you can read more about here!

So far, I’ve gotten through a lot of stuff. Two major projects have been gone through, revised, edited and polished to the point that I’m querying them to publishers and indie presses, and another small project is away with my editors. In between all of this, I’ve also managed to keep my writing brain happy by producing and submitting some short fiction to a couple of open calls. All in all, my plan has worked really well.

Then came this months project. My biggest one yet.

The thing I’m working on now, is a weird, science-fiction thriller I started almost exactly two years ago. I finished the first draft in October, 2022, and I haven’t looked at it since. It’s longer than anything I’ve ever written, bigger, strange, more complex, and… I don’t even know where to begin.

So far, I’m just reading. Reading and taking notes. It’s been two years since I looked at it last, so I need to familiarize myself with the content. What the hell is it about? Who are the characters? Is it fun? Is it exciting? Does it make sense? Spoiler alert: It does not. Not yet.

But as I’m reading through this and taking notes for future edits, I’m wondering: What do I do with this? Do I try to finish it? Polish it and make it make sense, so that I can send it off to people or self-publish it? This is a much bigger undertaking than the projects I’ve revised, edited and polished earlier this year, and I fear it might not be an as easy task.

At the same time, it’s the last one. At least the last big one. (There are always a few short stories lying around that I’ve forgotten about, things I could whip into shape if I had the will, want and need for it). If I get through this, I would be “done” with my spring cleaning project. I would be free!

I would be free!

But it’s going to be some battle. The other projects I worked on earlier this year felt easy compared to this. They were better drafted, made more sense, and I had a vision for what to do with them when they were done. I knew exactly where to send them, I had a plan for where I wanted them to go. With this Super-Big-Weird-SciFi-Project, I’m not so sure.

I think I’ll keep working on it. I’m definitely going to finish reading through it, and then after that, I’m hoping I have enough notes and enough interest that I’ll just turn right around and revise it. I’m good at blackmailing myself into working like that – wouldn’t want to leave something unfinished. (I know, I know, that’s the whole reason I started this spring cleaning project in the first place, shut it!)

After that, we’ll see what happens. Who knows, maybe it all just comes to me and everything will be alright in the end? What do you think? Let me know in the comments!

As always – I’d love it if you checked out my crime novels, my psychological thriller At The Gate, and short stories. There’s dark fantasy, creepy science-fiction as well as lovely spec-fic story about death. Honestly, a little bit for everyone.

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Book Review: The Dragon And The Butterfly by Abby Simpson

A historical fiction masterpiece!

I went into this not knowing what to expect. Despite being an archaeologist by trade and being generally fascinated by history, AND having studied in England, I knew nothing about Matilda and William, whom this book is about. I do love books though, and I realized last year that I enjoy historical fiction, so I figured me and this book would be a good match.

And it was! I fell in love with the genre when I read Pillars Of  The Earth by Ken Follett, and this book could be right up there on the top shelf with the best of them. The Dragon and The Butterfly follows Maud of Flanders, wife to William the Conqueror and mother of a whole horde of kids, as she and her husband take on the world. It’s thrilling, beautiful, terrifying, romantic, adventurous, and completely enthralling, all in one. As I get older, I realize historical fiction has all of the intrigue, plotting, and scheming that I love from epic fantasy novels, without all the nonsense in between (it’s not really nonsense, but I think you know what I mean).

Coupled with Simpson’s attention to detail, the huge amount of research she must have put down to write this, and an ever-alluring political drama that snakes its way through the plot of the book, I was hooked!

I struggled a little bit before I was fully hooked, because I felt the start of the book was a bit slow and I got a bit confused with the big character gallery. But this is probably a me problem, ’cause I often prefer fast-paced books. Anyway – once I was hooked, I was in!

Historical fiction is rapidly becoming a new favorite genre with me, and The Butterfly and The Dragon definitely helps to cement that. If you’re by chance particularly interested in medieval England, I’d highly recommend this!

What do you say, are you a fan of historical fiction? Got any recommendations for me, or are you considering picking up this book by Abby Simpson? Let me know in the comments!

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I Finished Another Thing!

In an attempt to go through a ton of my old writing, in what I’m calling my Year Of A Thousand Projects, I’m trying very hard to not write anything new. Sure, there’s an odd short story here and there, when I feel the itch in my typing fingers become too much after seeing a particularly cool call for submissions, and there’s a whole novella at the front of my mind, just waiting to crawl onto the page, but honestly, it’s going surprisingly well.

The point with going through all my old stuff, isn’t necessarily to query, submit or publish it all. Sure, that’s the end goal (as it is with anything I produce) – but only if the product ends up being good enough for any of those things. That’s kind of the purpose of this, it’s more of a revision of previous work, going through old manuscripts, reading over old outlines and taking stock. Is there a story here? Is it good? Is it close to done and well executed? Or is it salvageable, but only if I put it in tons of hours? Where can I take this, and who can I send it to?

It’s more of a revision of previous work, going through old manuscripts and taking stock.

Honestly, it’s very rewarding work. Being a person who doesn’t have a great memory to begin with, and who also prefers to leave things lying around for a bit after the initial draft, I’ve come over a lot of stuff I had completely forgotten about. A lot of it isn’t great. There’s probably a reason why I left it in the first place, right? At the same time, some of it is brilliant. I’ve surprised myself with cool stories and intriguing plot lines more than a handful of times.

And, I just finished something! A whole novella, and one that can definitely become something. I’m not sure which way to take it yet, though I’m contemplating self-publishing it, so we’ll see. For now, I’m going to focus on the next project that needs an overhaul, and then maybe I’ll know what to do with this other one later.

But again, this is very rewarding work. If you’re like me, and you have an intricate folder system somewhere in the cloud, full of your old hopes and dreams, I recommend doing a little spring cleaning. Maybe you’ll find a gem or two, like me!

Have you done anything like this before? Got any helpful tip or advice? Let me know in the comments!

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Book Review: The Couple At No. 9 by Claire Douglas

What an incredible book!

This is the kind of thriller people talk about around the water cooler! Right from the start I was hooked. Everything pulled me in, the plot, the pacing, the characters, the voices… I loved everything about how this is written and how the story slowly builds.

The plot is simple: Saffron and her husband Tom have inherited a cabin in the English country side. Imagine a cozy, brick-built, with a thatched-roofed in scenic little hamlet (that’s what I imagined anyway). This is where the story starts for our lovely couple. And as you often do when you inherit old cabin, you want to rebuild. Saffron and Tom are particularly interested in expanding the kitchen. Then, of course, as the builders are working their way through the garden, making room for the extension, they come across two dead bodies. Instantly, everything is turned on its head.

Dead bodies? Outside the cabin Saffron inherited from her grandmother? Who are they? How long have they been there?

It’s all very eerie.

Of course, it doesn’t help that Saffron’s dementia suffering grandmother only answers one thing when she’s questioned about it: “Susan killed her. She hit her over the head, and she didn’t wake up.”

Who’s Susan? Is she one of the bodies? What’s going on?

Oh, how I want to tell you more, but I won’t, because I’m not a spoiler of stories. Just know that this book is very, very excellent. It has Gone Girl vibes, if you liked that, and there are so many thrilling twists and turns, you’ll be trying to guess what’s going on until literally the last couple of pages. I thought I had it figured out for so long, and I was close, until I got turned around again!

I thought I had it figured out for so long!

It’s beautifully written, elegant and simple, yet heartbreaking and lovely. There’s many different perspectives (in different tenses even!) and all of it is extraordinarily well put together.

If you’re going to read just one thriller this year, I’d say go for this one. You won’t be disappointed.

Have you read anything by Claire Douglas before? What did you think? Let me know in the comments!

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The Year Of A Thousand Projects

Ugh, I’ve been so busy I almost forgot April’s first blog post!

I said it earlier this year – here – that in 2024 I would focus on going through a lot of old stuff. Things I’ve written ages ago that I’ve left to simmer for so long now that I’ve almost forgotten about them entirely. Now, this is in one sense a very relaxing task. Even though I’m going through stories and doing revisions, it doesn’t feel as daunting and as massive an undertaking as sitting down and writing something totally new, from scratch. At the same time, I get to jump between things, do a little bit here and there, submit a few things, send another thing off to an editor, you get the gist, so it feels very rewarding a lot of the time. I get to check multiple things off my to-do list every other week.

But…

That to-do list also seems to get infinitely bigger with every thing I complete. Don’t get me wrong, I love the hustle and I love feeling like I’m getting through my back log of projects. Not everything is going to lead anywhere, or be able to be finished, but at least I’m having a look through what I have lying around, right?

But there’s just so much stuff lying around! Ever done that thing where you stupidly decide to deep-clean your whole place, only to realize your closets, cupboards, cabinets and drawers are packed waaaay tighter than you remembered? Yeah, that’s where I’m at now.

I don’t know how 2024 is going to turn out at this point. I feel like I’ve made a good start and this is potentially going very well, at the same time I might have bitten off more than I can chew. Maybe I just need to make a more organized and structured list for how to get through everything, or maybe I just focus on the things that seem most interesting in the moment, but I don’t know. I’ll have a think about it for another couple of months while I just work my way through.

Ever done a spring cleaning like this on your old writing or other creative projects? Any advice? Let me know in the comments!

As always, I’d love it if you checked out my books! If you’re into fast-paced crime thrillers, creepy psychological horror, or sci-fi and fantasy short stories, I’ve got you covered!

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I Wrote Another Book – Now What?

Okay, so you’ve written and a book. You’re sitting there with a manuscript in your hands and you’re finally thinking, this is done now! That’s like, the most demanding, most draining hard work you’ve ever done, probably, and now you’re finished! Congratulations. Pat yourself on the back and tell yourself well done, because honestly, you’ve earned it.

So what the hell do you do now?

I figured I would build on my last blog post about self-, traditional-, and indie publishing. Let’s talk about all the stuff that happens before that. Because even though writing the book seems like the hardest part, I’m unfortunately here to tell you that’s the easy part.

See, I wrote a book. Technically, I wrote it years ago, in 2021 I think, when I was stuck on an Arctic island, forced to take time off work, but with nowhere to go. There was this worldwide health concern thing going on (don’t know if you remember that weird period in history) so I figured I’d make the best out of my free time. Two weeks later, I had a full draft for a science-fiction thriller.

First things first: leave your manuscript somewhere and forget about it. This is a trick I picked up from Stephen King’s On Writing after realizing I kind of already was doing exactly that (because I’m always eager to get started on something new). I didn’t look at my science fiction thriller again until last fall. The point of this is to get some perspective. You don’t want to be in the same headspace as when you were writing the book, the next time you look at it. You want to see it as a reader.

Second: when you finally decide to pick it up again after 1, 3, 6 (or in my case, nearly 30 months), the first thing you do is to read through it. Just read it. If you notice things that don’t make sense along the way, note them down, but don’t change a single word. Just read. I was quite surprised with how well planned my book seemed, because having written it 2,5 years before, I hardly remembered any of it. I was happy to see that most of it weirdly made sense.

Third: get someone else involved. I have a few alpha readers on hand, and every time I get ready to read through a manuscript that’s been simmering in my cloud storage for a while, I send it off to them. I don’t want them to look at any of the small stuff at this stage (though many of them do), but I want the big, overarching things. The feel of the book. Does it make sense? Is it fun, exciting, thrilling? Do they like it? Turns out, in this case, they really loved my science-fiction thriller!

Fourth: after having gone through the book myself, taking some notes as I go, and hopefully having some feedback from my alpha readers, I start to revise. Change the big plot points that didn’t work. Add scenes that I need to connect things. Often I’ll end up deleting characters, because I realize their purpose can be tied into some other character, which at the same time giving them more screen time. I also often have to add description and scene setting, because I skip a lot of that while I’m drafting.

With this science-fiction thriller in particular, there were some sciency things that needed to change and be elaborated on, and there were some very vital details that tied the whole thing together that was missing.

Fifth: after an initial comb through with a large-toothed comb, I start again. Another pass, looking at increasingly smaller stuff. Details, the nitty gritty. It might be 3 passes for one type of book, or it might be 16. It depends on the story, how well it was drafted, and how much work it is to change things. It’s at this stage I’ll get beta readers involved. Some people call them critique partners, some say those and beta readers are two different things, but the point is to have someone give you feedback on your book. They might look at the whole book, or I’ll ask them to focus on certain sections. I’ll make sure to ask them specific questions if there’s something I’m worried about – does this part where the man realizes he’s his own twin work? Does the scene with the giraffe in the trench coat get the point across as an allegory to today’s political climate? Just normal things like that.

This part honestly takes however long you want it to. You’re never going to be able to please every reader, so consider the feedback you get. Over the years I’ve significantly decreased my number of beta readers, just because I got too much conflicting feedback. Some people loved the way I did certain things, and then that would end up being what others hated the most about my writing. Honestly, it’s exhausting and counter-productive.

Sixth: at this stage, you’re probably close to having a well-thought through and polished draft on your hands. You might want to get more critique partners involved, or you might want to start sending your book off to people to see if someone wants to publish it, like we talked about in my previous post. Depending on where you want your book to end up, you might have to query an agent, who’ll then try to sell it to a publisher, or you might be able to submit to a publisher directly. Check the submissions guidelines carefully! And good luck.

I’m at a point in my career where I have a couple of options. I don’t have to query agents (not because I am agented, just because I choose to go down a different path), but I also don’t have to stand at the back of the line in the novel submission trenches.

And this is where I am today: I’ve sent the book off to my contacts (still having written an official blurb, synopsis, and pitched it properly like I would to any publisher, of course), and now I’m waiting. In the meantime, I’ll be working on some short stories, and maybe start reading through another old draft that I have lying around. Who knows!

I hope this helped and I wish you the best of luck on your author journey! Which path have you taken as you try to get your art out into the world? Do you have any other questions for me? Let me know in the comments!

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Book Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson

Almost as good as the first book!

I don’t remember why I wanted to read the first book in The Millennium series, but it was probably a mix of me hearing about the book all my adult life and suddenly seeing a sale on Audible. Anyway – I’m very glad I started it and I’m very glad I kept going with the series, because the first book is probably one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read.

This second book is almost just as good. It takes places a while after the first and interestingly enough kind of makes us start all over again. Mikael and Lisbeth hasn’t had much if any contact since the end of the first book, and when Mikael gets caught up in a double homicide that somehow gets pinned on Lisbeth, which results in a manhunt after her across all of Sweden, we just know that they’re bound to meet again.

Like with the first book, this is a multi-layered mystery that just keeps on giving and giving, slowly revealing more interesting, impossible twists with every turn of the page. At the same time, it’s a character builder. We learn more about Lisbeth and Mikael as we delve into their pasts and dig through their secrets. Lisbeth’s life is – perhaps not surprisingly – particularly interesting. She’s a fascinating character with a very interesting skill set, and I love reading about her. I’m very much looking forward to the next book.

At the same time, book two isn’t as awesome as book one. You can read my review of the first book here. It’s probably not weird when you think of how good book one was, ’cause it’s always going to be difficult to write a follow up to a master piece like that. It’s only natural that a sequel can’t reach the same heights. I felt especially that the middle of the second half lagged a bit. The action and mystery felt like it took a backseat to a lot explanation and setting up the ending. Again – magnificent book, but not as good as the first.

I’m looking forward to reading the next one though. I have the first one so vividly in my mind still, I thought I read it sometime last year, but it turns out it was back near the end of 2021. Weird how fast the time goes by. I’ll have to make sure I don’t leave the next book waiting for a couple of years this time. Have you read any books of Stieg Larsson? Do you love ’em as much as me? Let me know in the comments!

And as always – please, check out my books if you like thrillers! There are crime mysteries like this, and more psychological horror vibes if that’s your fancy. As an indie author, every single ounce of support helps immensely, and I’m eternally grateful for all my readers!

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