Hello reader friend!
When I was a new author, I listened to podcasts where experienced authors would claim they had too many ideas to write them all.
I was jealous of this. I felt like I rarely had good ideas.
But now that I’ve been doing this for a little while, I understand the sentiment. I have a file in my project manager (the Mac app Agenda) with a master list of all the ideas that have popped into my head every few months over the last several years. It adds up to quite a lot over time.
Old me was so impatient.
I will share a few with you in this post. (Mostly, the ones I’m positive I will never write some day.)
They’re in varying levels of quality, and in all sorts of genres… I write mostly thrillers but I have lots of ideas for SciFi and Fantasy stories, too. I like to read those genres, so it makes sense. I don’t read romance, and I’ve never once had an idea for a love story appear in my head.
I have written a few dystopian and post-apocalyptic things under my super-secret pen name, but I have no plans to write a fantasy novel or a science fiction book at any point in the near future.
(please don’t check my science on this one…)
And that brings me to my point: I find it… unsettling that I have this folder full of ideas that I know I’ll never complete, for one reason or another. Most of them are because they’re in weird genres or because they’re standalone books. I mostly focus on series these days.
Maybe unsettling isn’t the right word. Disappointing, maybe?
I do have to prioritize. I have two hands and one brain, so I have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and write these books chronologically, so maybe I do have more ideas than time.
Anyway, I hope you’ve enjoyed this sneak peak into my idea folder, a place where a lot of decent ideas unfortuntely go to die. But, the good news for the reader is, the best ones will get made…
But not this one. I’ll probably never write this.