July books: 3/6 (Native Star, The Owls’ House, and A Posse of Princesses)

Hey, squiders, sorry! Didn’t mean to disappear for two weeks!

I wish I could say that I have gotten SO much done in that time, but I sure haven’t.

(Where was I, even? Hold on.)

I’d like to say that I’ve spent the last two weeks brainstorming on Broken Mirrors, and I have solved all its myriad of problems, and am ready to outline a new version of the story.

Alas.

What I have done is made Pinterest boards for the three things I’m supposed to be outlining (Broken Mirrors; a sequel novel to Drifting, which is my story in the Under Her Protection anthology; and a series of short stories in the same world of the Trilogy/World’s Edge).

As I’ve mentioned before, I keep two different idea files–a text one, and my Pinterest boards. In Pinterest I have general boards (for scenery, characters, prompts, ideas, vibes), and I also have story specific boards that I tend to keep private.

I’ve been focusing on Broken Mirrors, but it’s been frustrating. I’m not finding pins that are helping me solve any of my problems, and Pinterest keeps giving me ATLA pins to look at which are very interesting and completely unhelpful. I haven’t even touched the Drifting board (the setting for Drifting and its unnamed sequel is a large family house where any corner can potentially be a portal for elsewhere, and there is so much potential there) and I have put some pins on the shorts board which were actually sparking ideas, but I haven’t gone back to them because of the Broken Mirrors issue.

(If I ever figure out the story, I’m going to change the title. It only vaguely makes sense in current context, and if we don’t keep that plotline–and basically everything is on the chopping block–it will make no sense whatsoever.)

Pinterest board for Broken Mirrors
Part of the Broken Mirrors board–as you can see, it’s almost all characters cuz that’s all I’ve got

Pinterest obviously isn’t working to fix my problems, but I haven’t had time to go farther afield for story ideas. Pinterest is on my phone so I can do it in the car on the way to taking kids to and from various camps, or in a slow moment while cooking dinner, or wherever, whereas I haven’t had time to sit and think for any amount of time in the last two weeks.

(I think I’ve missed my morning pages two or three times this month as well.)

But maybe I should at least abandon it and work on the Drifting/Shorts boards, and maybe something will spark while I’m working on something else.

(Part of the problem, I think, is that because Broken Mirrors is so broken, and basically any and all changes are on the table, that it’s hard to find good search terms for what I want, because who knows what I want.)

Anyway, squiders, I hope your July is going well, and I shall do my best to keep up my normal posting schedule from here on out.

In My Pinterest Era
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