Torn between two novels and feeling like a fool
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I've always been obsessed with one novel at a time, but now, I am writing two, and I can't tell if it is folly or just my process. I feel jet-lagged between two story worlds, never sure where I am or who I am with, and the sense of discombobulation makes me more than a tad anxious. Sometimes I think it is fine to just keep working on both, that sooner or later I will gravitate more to one. Other times I think this is ridiculous, and I should just choose and figure out that particular novel's problems and concerns before I move on. I want to do both novels...but at the same time? I certainly can write a script while I write a novel, and while I was working on revisions for BREATHE (Algonquin 2010!) I kept writing, but this feels odd and different and...a little scary. Has anyone else ever worked on two novels at the same time? Am I foolhardy or just obsessed?
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Jennifer Gibbons says:
Caroline, this is going out to you...
and I'm singing along! Oh dear, they're asking me to stop singing.
Seriously, two authors I can think of that have had your problem is Jessica Inclan and Lauren Lise Baratz-Logsted. They might be able to feel your pain. Jennifer Gibbons, Red Room
Eric Nichols says:
Hmmmmm... I wonder if it's
Hmmmmm... I wonder if it's an accident that "novels" spelled backwards is "sloven." :)
eric