It's a process

Books take time. they take energy, they take research and planning. As I wait on book four to be fully reviewed and edited, I began work on book five. Previously, I had held back on starting new books until the latest book was published. Until this one. It seems the new story needs to be told. I have about twenty pages of notes so far. Yep, that's right....notes. Paper and pencil, old school stuff. Sometimes old school is okay. It's even better when mixed with new tools. I'll use the notes to get ideas down quickly as they occur to me but I'll simultaneously use my writing program to hold my research papers. I also use the writing program to keep all my characters up-to-date. For example, if Harley has a childhood memory, then I copy her memory into my character description. It's fun to be sure Harley keeps growing as a person and keeps those memories coming too. I have not planned everything we'll learn about Harley in the next novel but I'm confident we'll learn some fun and interesting things that make us love her more and more.