WHICH ONE FIRST? by Karen King
Like a lot of writers I sometimes suffer from an overload
of ideas. My notebooks are full of characters and storylines that I never get
time to write about and I am always working on at least two projects at the
same time. And as I write for children of different ages and adults too this means
the ideas can be completely different genres, ages and topics. Take my two
ebooks for example, one is a children's fantasy novel and the other is a contemporary romance.
And my traditionally published work includes
picture books, children’s detective novels, plays, writing courses and romance stories.
Like now, for instance. I’m working on a fantasy
trilogy for tweenagers and a series for 7-9’s which is quite enough to be
getting on with you’d think. But no, the ideas just won’t go away. Creeping
into the back of my mind is an idea for a YA novel, a novel for adults and
there’s also a TV script I’ve been dying to write. I’ve jotted all the ideas down,
of course, but which one do I write first? They’re all fighting for space in my
head and shouting to tell their story so what I want to know is does this ever happen to you and if it does what do you do?
How do you decide which story to write first?
Comments
Perhaps we don't make the decisions at all. Maybe it's the characters in our stories that give us a nudge and demand attention.