Write - Print - Type - Trash - Start Over
The title pretty much says it all.
I start with a thought and a blank page in hopes of creating that end all do all story. You know, the one you can't put down, and even when you do, you pick it up a week later and read it again.
I have yet to create that story but my waste basket next to my desk is brimming with wrinkled, crunched sheets of paper. Some have a sentence, some, a paragraph. I think there might be ten or twelve discarded pages with one or two words.
I have the thoughts, the ideas, the characters, and the plot but for some reason I can't get up the steam to get in a strong enough gear to make it flow.
I ask myself, "Is my head in the right place?" Do I want to introduce Donavon right away or later? He's central as the villain who has a thing for Jeanette who is blind. Then there is David, Jeanette's brother, a cop looking for the "Sunset Killer" which just happens to be Donavon. Basic plot. Good guy, bad guy, innocent victim. Right? But is she innocent?
That's where I get flustered/ I want to give her a vested interest to the criminal mind with a twist. I just can't figure out how to set up a blind girl for that type of character.
And that's where I'm at. What to do, what to do.
I may do what I've done with dozens of other ideas over the years and shelve the idea completely or leave it on the backburner for a couple of months and try it again.
Meantime, I must empty my waste basket. It's starting to scare me.