I’m getting myself all tied up in a knot again over where I’m going with my WIP (I should really give it a name but I quite like calling it that, makes it sound like I’ve actually written something). I keep getting more and more ideas and I’m really not sure which of them to follow.
I need someone I can bounce my ideas off really. I’ve tried asking my mum what she thinks of a couple of things but she just tends to agree with me or tell me what she thinks I want to hear, without giving me anything constructive. The one person who I think would actually be good to run ideas past, I don’t want to because we talked a while back about writing a book together and I don’t want to remind her of that.
I really need to stop book shopping too. For a start I haven’t got time to read as much as I normally do now that I’m trying to do some writing of my own. Secondly, every idea I’ve had that I think is great and a bit different I keep finding books where someones done it first. Sort of. Usually just vaguely but enough to put a dampener on me thinking I had something special.
No one has done all of my ideas rolled into one though and I still think they’re really good – even if I am getting more than slightly confused by all the different directions I could go. I really want to tell this story, I think it has a lot of potential and that’s all that matters. I’m writing it mainly for me anyway. Because it’s something I’ve always wanted to do and to prove to myself that I can.
