Some writers have a million stories waiting to jump onto the page.

I’m one of the few who don’t. I have vague ideas of what I believe can make a fun book, but nothing concrete.

Then I sit down and begin typing. And that’s when the fun begins.

First, I don’t outline. Nothing against it. I know some authors swear by it. I like to sit down at my keyboard, like it’s the steering wheel of a gassed-up roadster, and just go.

Ideas pop into my head, and things get moving.

And that’s where I am now. The finished book sits at 91,000 words, and I’m hoping to find an agent/publisher who gets what I’m trying to do. There’s no guarantee that will happen, and I might have to publish it independently. Thatdecision’s a little more than a month away.

Someone posted on X that you need to keep writing the next book. In this day and age, you do. You want to have something in the pipeline while your finished book is winding its way to market.

So, 1,500 words down, and at least 68,500 to go. I like to shoot for 90,000 words, which is roughly a 300-page book, but I don’t think people realize how long it takes to reach that word count. (Maybe some authors breeze to that number. I find it challenging.) Hopefully, if all goes well, I’ll get rolling on this next one. And I already have an idea for the one after that.

Onward!