L.E. Chamberlin
Oh, dear God. My WIP folders are a hot mess. I know I can't be alone in this, so I'll tell you how I write:
I get an idea - a snatch of dialogue, inspiration for a character, a "what if?" scenario - and I tuck it away (usually on my iphone by way of memo). Then I take turns adding on - world-building, character development, etc at random until a project takes shape. Once something starts to take shape, I buckle down and really work with it.
All this is to say, my big project on deck is a NA trilogy (full-length novels, not serials) that deals with three interrelated couples - all from male POVs. The first one won't be done till early 2015. But I've also been working on this BDSM novella, and it's a bit of a dark horse. It demands my submission (ha ha) at the strangest times. So that is also on its way.
And then there's all the other stuff in folders. A paralegal/roller derby girl who's sworn off love but can't stop screwing lawyers. An American girl who flies to England early to surprise her boyfriend early (oops...) and winds up having a night she can't put behind her with a Welsh rugby player. An erotic novella about a fishbowl party (yes, that kind of fishbowl party). Luckily I'm about to take one year off to write, so hopefully I will be able to tick some of these off the list!
I get an idea - a snatch of dialogue, inspiration for a character, a "what if?" scenario - and I tuck it away (usually on my iphone by way of memo). Then I take turns adding on - world-building, character development, etc at random until a project takes shape. Once something starts to take shape, I buckle down and really work with it.
All this is to say, my big project on deck is a NA trilogy (full-length novels, not serials) that deals with three interrelated couples - all from male POVs. The first one won't be done till early 2015. But I've also been working on this BDSM novella, and it's a bit of a dark horse. It demands my submission (ha ha) at the strangest times. So that is also on its way.
And then there's all the other stuff in folders. A paralegal/roller derby girl who's sworn off love but can't stop screwing lawyers. An American girl who flies to England early to surprise her boyfriend early (oops...) and winds up having a night she can't put behind her with a Welsh rugby player. An erotic novella about a fishbowl party (yes, that kind of fishbowl party). Luckily I'm about to take one year off to write, so hopefully I will be able to tick some of these off the list!
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