Another Wednesday, another Road Trip! Road Trip Wednesday is a blog hop hosted by YA Highway!
This week we're talking about what we hope to be writing in one year, two years...five years..
I've started this post a number of times and really struggled with what to write.
A year from now I would love to be in the near-final stages of editing my current WIP and writing the follow up to this story- that would be ideal. I originally wanted to make my current WIP a stand alone, however from where I'm standing now, my main character's story seems to be so far from over. I don't know if it will end up as a trilogy, but I'm very against writing a book when there is no story there just to make it into a trilogy. In my mind at the moment, it seems like the story will be told after two books, and I wouldn't want to force the story just to make it into three.... but you never know what will happen!
Three years from now I would love to have my current series done and be writing more challenging stories, perhaps a historical piece (I have a few ideas for this) or an epic saga or some form... I would love to set a story in the late 1800's, either in New York or London I think. That's as far as I've got on that one though, not sure about characters or plots as of yet!
In five years, I just hope to be able to be writing something I'm passionate about. A story that gets me really excited that I can't wait to share with the world. There is one in particular I think about.... I want to make my Grandad's life into a book. He died when I was 12, however a few years before he died he wrote an autobiography on one of those really old original computers and got a number of copies bound for his friends and family. There were a few sections of the book I particularly found interesting when I was young, particularly his adventures during World War Two (even as a seven year old I was fascinated with the war). It wasn't until last year that I read the whole book in its entirety and wow, he was a really spectacular man who lived a very full and interesting life. It really is the type of story you'd see in a film or a book... and I would love to tell the world his story. I need to do him justice though, so I need to wait until I'm 100% ready before I tackle it and figure out a good way to make it into a novel. I just wish I was alive so I could probe him for more (luckily my Dad remembers a good portion of the parts after he was born so I can question him for more information!)
Ultimately I want to make sure my full time work doesn't get in the way of my writing and to be sure I don't lose my love for the craft. I would love to get to the point where I don't need a full time job, where I can just spend my days writing stories and immersing myself inside these worlds I create inside my head. That would be the ultimate.
Who knows what will happen, but it's good to dream! When it comes down to it, if I'm writing, and have stories kicking around in my head, I'll be happy. What do you think you'll be doing?
This week we're talking about what we hope to be writing in one year, two years...five years..
I've started this post a number of times and really struggled with what to write.
A year from now I would love to be in the near-final stages of editing my current WIP and writing the follow up to this story- that would be ideal. I originally wanted to make my current WIP a stand alone, however from where I'm standing now, my main character's story seems to be so far from over. I don't know if it will end up as a trilogy, but I'm very against writing a book when there is no story there just to make it into a trilogy. In my mind at the moment, it seems like the story will be told after two books, and I wouldn't want to force the story just to make it into three.... but you never know what will happen!
Three years from now I would love to have my current series done and be writing more challenging stories, perhaps a historical piece (I have a few ideas for this) or an epic saga or some form... I would love to set a story in the late 1800's, either in New York or London I think. That's as far as I've got on that one though, not sure about characters or plots as of yet!
In five years, I just hope to be able to be writing something I'm passionate about. A story that gets me really excited that I can't wait to share with the world. There is one in particular I think about.... I want to make my Grandad's life into a book. He died when I was 12, however a few years before he died he wrote an autobiography on one of those really old original computers and got a number of copies bound for his friends and family. There were a few sections of the book I particularly found interesting when I was young, particularly his adventures during World War Two (even as a seven year old I was fascinated with the war). It wasn't until last year that I read the whole book in its entirety and wow, he was a really spectacular man who lived a very full and interesting life. It really is the type of story you'd see in a film or a book... and I would love to tell the world his story. I need to do him justice though, so I need to wait until I'm 100% ready before I tackle it and figure out a good way to make it into a novel. I just wish I was alive so I could probe him for more (luckily my Dad remembers a good portion of the parts after he was born so I can question him for more information!)
Ultimately I want to make sure my full time work doesn't get in the way of my writing and to be sure I don't lose my love for the craft. I would love to get to the point where I don't need a full time job, where I can just spend my days writing stories and immersing myself inside these worlds I create inside my head. That would be the ultimate.
Who knows what will happen, but it's good to dream! When it comes down to it, if I'm writing, and have stories kicking around in my head, I'll be happy. What do you think you'll be doing?
