New Beginnings

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For me, and for many of my friends, April has been a hell of a month, or perhaps a better way to phrase it would be, a month of hell. For varying reasons. As May looms around the corner, I find myself trying to be hopeful that this will be a better month than the last. That maybe things will get better. I have to have this hope, because if I don’t, I may very well go insane. (Which for a writer is a fine line anyway).

I noted, however briefly, that I managed to get a bit of writing done during this past week, and in addition to that, I’ve also been working on ideas with my friend Kat as we decided randomly while attempting to record a podcast that it would be fun for us to co-author a novel together. Even though we both have a billion other book ideas we should be working on, instead.

It’s an exciting new adventure for me, the idea of co-authoring a novel with a friend. I had never considered the concept before, and actually if I’m being honest, the idea had always sort of repulsed me before. I like writing on my own, I work well on my own. Having to answer to someone and explain my ideas to someone or my reasoning to someone is something I’ve never had to do before… maybe a little in editing, but for the entire novel? Having to confer with someone and come up with ideas and characters and concepts together? Where would we even start? Who would start and how exactly did we want to write this? Sharing scenes in a chapter or the characters themselves? It all had to blend and be cohesive and the idea was that a reader shouldn’t be able to tell the difference in writing styles at all, which while I do feel Kat is a great writer, we obviously have different styles. It was a tall order to fill, but it was a challenge I was eager to take on. Thus far, we’ve come up with a sort of bare bones of a story, and I actually can’t wait to get started on it.