Today is the first day....
I could spend the whole time I have for writing this trying to make excuses for not writing or I can just start and take my chances.
I am in the midst of writing four different books. Three for the Women In Love series and the first of the Matt Chritchley Mysteries, A Death In Paris. The series just keeps writing itself and I am obliged to tell the story that the characters create. But at some point it will branch off and there will be other stories related to, but not directly concerned with, the series. An example would be the way Diana Gabaldon wrote the Outlander series then the Lord John series.
It happens that way sometimes. I know that when I'm trying to sleep and I start thinking about something that I wrote or that I'm writing now I see all kinds of possibilities for the direction the story takes that I didn't when I was awake or when I was writing it. One of my short stories, Meeting Moreau is like that, I know there's something I need to do with it but I'm not sure what. In my daydream or prequel dream I turned it into a novel but I'm already too busy for that. Maybe one day. It's on my bucket list for 2013.
For now however I have to reconcile one event in three different books beginning with Galen mentioning the even and Gregg Gregory anticipating the event and finally how the event unfolds.