Find Your Passion

I wrapped up my rewrite of The Nighthawk’s Nemesis yesterday and went to bed knowing that the manuscript is so much better as a result of that work. Pouring a cup of coffee this morning, I suddenly realized I’ve nothing to write about as all four manuscripts in the Remy Lane Mystery series are done. I face a day with no writing. A week with no writing. Months with no writing. Oh, sure, I can pen query letters to literary agents in an effort to get trad-published or dive into the online marketing game of self-publishing, but no new story? No fresh characters? No unsolved mystery? Impossible.
 
Writing is my passion. My creative imagination has me jumping out of bed in the morning, popping open my laptop, and penning a fresh narrative. Characters and their various encounters swirl in my brain all day. Snappy dialogues find their way to Post-it notes and fresh scenarios have me pondering possibilities when I lie in bed later that night. Writing fills me with purpose as surely as breathing fills my lungs with air. Can’t live without either of them.
 
Sipping the last of my coffee, I’ve decided to be like Janus, Roman god of beginnings, endings, and transitions – a divine character I learned about when writing The Tide Turns. I’ll rifle through my “ideas” file and begin churning fresh plots for the next story in the series while also looking back over my completed manuscripts to embed stronger emotions into characters. (Readers love vibrant characters.) That new growth and evolution will keep me writing throughout the winter months. I can’t wait to start on them.