So. The Smut Challenge

I don’t know if it’s the “begin with smut” part. I really don’t think it is. I think it’s the fact that I didn’t know much of the story beforehand except for the smut.

So the smut is utterly wonderful, and the rest of the story is…just about non-existent? Yeah, that’d be it.

Therefore, I have decided to leave it for a bit. I feel like I have tons of unfinished stories lying around, but I actually don’t. I finished two of the manuscripts I had left undone last year, and I know I’ll finish more.

Elizabeth Bear writes that she’s the worst example for any working writer, because she meanders from project to project, often works on more than one at a time, et cetera. I don’t think I’m that far on the ADD-writer spectrum, but I think it’s pretty clear that this book, at least, does not want to be written all in one go.

So I’ll let it rest. I am far too much in love with the characters to worry that I’ll never come back!

Next up: EdMo! And for a challenge, instead of doing Joss, which is nearly done thanks to two prior passes–I’m going to do Hiro. Yes, both books. Both hugely messy, parts in a variety of places, flashbacks and smut and pacing issues and things left out books.

This should be…interesting. For a value of interesting that includes “utterly mad.”