Lockdown: Tokyo Drift #12 – What to Write?

I didn’t know what to write this morning.

Now I’ve got plenty of projects on the go – Boiling Seas 2 for one – but they don’t actually need much writing. They need editing, and they need words taken out, not added in. Progress is slow but I am getting to it, bit by bit – and I’ve managed to enlist someone to proofread it, so that should help too.

But I’m over 6 years into my streak of writing every single day, and so I always need something to work on. And for the last few months I’ve always had something – first finishing BS2, then writing and editing short stories for several different deadlines. That kept me nice and busy.

But then I finished them all, and got BS2 to the edit stage… and realised I didn’t really have much else in the tank.

I’ve got plenty of half-started ideas, and notes for plenty more, but for whatever reason I just wasn’t feeling them this morning. I’ve fallen back on an old story that will probably never see the light of day (unless the Black Library suddenly start taking unsolicited submissions) for now, which is a nice way to do sort of relaxed writing. It’s comfortable. It’s probably never going anywhere, except maybe on here, and there’s no pressure. But I think I need a new big project to get stuck into.

Or maybe an old one. I have been reading some Second World War stories lately – about war crimes investigators in the late 40s, and the Maquis in France, and commando raids, and all that sort of thing. And it’s made me remember a war story I put down a while ago, and that I promised I’d get back into at some point this year…