The Struggles of Starting a New Book

Starting a new book is very, very difficult. Most people just assume that an idea bursts into your head, you sit down, and knock out a whole novel in a day, and the rest is just business. That’s not how it works at all, at least for me.

See, I have about 20 ideas in the works right now, churning in my mind, maybe a few rough chapters down on paper somewhere. But I can never follow through with them the way I did with Wildflower Dreams. I start doubting the plots I had created in my mind, turning them onto a different path, switch up little details and characters and BAM! The beautiful, perfect ideas I had in my mind instantly turned to mush once I wrote them down. So the question is, how do you preserve the gorgeous plots you start with? How do you make a perfect transition from notion to novel?

But I suppose this frustrating phenomenon is a bit of a blessing, too. Not only does it give you the opportunity to correct some errors in your original plot, but it has also taught me a few things about life in general. Things don’t always turn out the way you expect them to, and you just have to go with it, because who knows? Maybe you’ll end up in an even better place than before.

Anyways, thank you for reading this. I thought I’d shed some light on an analogy that has been on my mind quite a lot recently, and I will continue to work on shaping my ideas into books I want to write.