The New Direction

Last week I posted on Facebook that I'm heading in a new direction. I've been pretty busy getting organized to do that. I am going to focus solely on writing romantic fiction. However, it will not be humorous. Oh, there may be some funny stuff here or there, but the stories themselves will be essentially tragic. Think "Bridges of Madison County" or "Titanic"; bittersweet stories where the characters don't wind up together. As is so often the case in life, there may not be a happy ending. This may seem like a strange move for a comedienne, but I have given it a lot of careful thought. Once I made the definite decision to write sad love stories, everything in my life got easier!

With no fewer than 10 book ideas (that's right, TEN) I was really confused as to why I just couldn't write anything down other than the idea itself. When I realized that I didn't want them to be funny, and that it's okay for them to be melancholy, it's as if a floodgate of energy opened up within me. It may seem silly to say that it's okay to let a story be sad; of course a story will wind up being told as it should be; but to me it was a revelation. I was really clinging to the idea of "Romantic Comedy", and looked at the Happy Ending as a problem to be solved.

The only problem I actually need to work hard at is Time Management. I have a short attention span and many things that want to suck the hours from my day. This is the main issue I have been dealing with when I say I've been getting organized. There is an old adage that essentially says if you want to succeed, pick one thing and do it well, over and over again. That means I need to devote a majority of my time to putting these Ten Tragic Tales down on paper, and not busy myself cleaning house, reoganizing closets, or *sigh* blogging, or even *gasp* acting! I have to drop everything and write like crazy.

So I'm going to go do that now. :)