Insecure Writer's Support Group...

It's May 1st! IWSG is in full swing and right after the A to Z challenge, too.

Well, I tell you, I'm a lot less insecure about some things as I was. For a while there, I was having some issues with my revisions on book two.

See, I think I have told you all of this before, but my husband helps me out with ideas. I love that he helps me.  But... he hi-jacked my story.

Really! I was sitting there and typing some things up and he sat down next to me. I started to read a bit of what I wrote and we got to talking and he suddenly said, "Oh! I have an idea!"

And it just went from there. Went off on a huge tangent in the writing and then had to stop him. I had to bring it back around to what I had originally written before it got so far off the beaten path that I would have written something entirely different.

Different is good, mind you, but the tangent he went on focused most on one character. His. Yep, Black Rose. He's Larry's creation. He brought him out of the dust bunny filled darkness of Dungeons & Dragons folders and handed him to me. I love Black Rose, don't get me wrong, but he does have his own story I am working on.

It was kind of difficult to revise this new bit of writing and bring it all back on track, but I think I did it. I think I tweaked it and turned it around just enough. Might be a couple more things I have to tidy up, but it should be just fine.

I suppose I need to start working on Rose's story and just let hubby have full reign that way.

So what do you do when you've gone off somewhere in your story? How do you bring it back? Or do you?