For anyone who is a writer, you probably know exactly what I mean when I holler a GAHHHHHHHH!

I’m stumped, but not in the traditional sense.  I have had so many ideas for this serial I’m supposed to be writing that I can’t get them all sorted out!  I’ve had to resort to dictating into my phone to make notes that have come flooding into my mind at the worst times.

I have lost sleep too.  I was awake from 2:40-after 5:00 this morning.  During that time, at some point (don’t ask which point because I’ve lost track), I managed to end up on my phone typing out what felt like a fair bit of notes on this new project. Okay, I take that back… I just copied and pasted it into an email, sent it to my email, pulled it out and put it into a Word document and it’s more than a page!

Obviously I was busy!  I also added notes twice throughout that time awake.

I think I’m more ready now.  Of course I don’t remember what I all wrote so I will have to re-read but at least the ideas got written down.  I had to remind myself that I can pull away from the original murder story and make up my own… I think that’s been the toughest part… that I’m merely using the original event as a base… a starting point from which to build and to create someone else who was there and has not only kept a secret all these years but who now, of course, doesn’t want that to get out.

I’m loving it… I’m just having too many false starts!

If you have any suggestions feel free to share because I will take all the suggestions I can get on keeping it going!  I’ve already started it… TWICE!

I also need to pick someone’s brain or do some research on shotguns from the 1940s and shell casings.

It’s always wonderful to see what’s in an author’s browser history!  What’s in yours?