If there's one lesson life has taught me repeatedly...

[naomi_jay]

 ... It's to know when I'm beaten. And as far as BAD DOGS goes, I'm beaten. I thought I'd figured out my problems with this book, but it turns out I haven't. Simply put, my heart is just not in it. So I'm scrapping it completely and moving onto the idea my heart is in. The plot I was originally saving for a potential fourth book in the Urban Wolf series will now be book two. BAD DOGS is dead, and BLOOD HUNT lives in it's place. Ta da!

 

1791 / 70000 words. 3% done!

I'm annoyed at how much time I've wasted, and I hope that I will be able to write BAD DOGS eventually, because there are elements to the plot I love. But right now I just can't do it. I don't know why and I don't want to waste more time examining the matter. Luckily for me, writing BLOOD HUNT now instead of later in the series won't affect any of the overarcing plots, and writing BAD DOGS later won't either. So Ayla and Shannon are going to Paris and I get to write about sewer monsters (OR ARE THEY???) instead of court cases, which frankly appeals to me a lot more right now.

On the plus side, I wrapped up all the loose ends with Demonised, and it's now out on submission. So that's at least one thing achieved this weekend. And my boss is back at work tomorrow so I can beg her for some time off asap before I go stark raving mad.

Comments

[yolandasfetsos.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about BAD DOGS not working out for you at the moment... but yay for BLOOD HUNT! And since switching books doesn't affect your series or overall story, I say: go for it!

Have fun! :D

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I hope I will! Thanks :)

[dwg.livejournal.com]

If it's got to go, then it's got to go. You can save what you've got for a later date.

Re: Parisean sewers, isn't there a tour that goes into them, now? With catacombs?

You can have so much fun with sewer monsters (OR ARE THEY???) and werewolves in Paris. :D

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there is! We didn't go when we were there, but I really wish we had. And the catacombs too. I might have to go back and claim back the money as a business expense.

[catephoenix.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that but sometimes the hardest decisions are for the best. And even if you don't go back to Bad Dogs in its entirety, you'll probably use the parts of it you love in something else.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Hopefully it can go into book 3!

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Don't think of it as time wasted, think of it as time saved.

I have a bunch of abandoned book projects, but I don't think of them as failures, quite the contrary in fact. I look at them as being proof that I'm getting better at recognizing what works, what could work (but not now), and what simply won't.

Hope that makes sense :)