Directions For The New Year

I started to write a short story in between finishing my novel and Christmas. It was about a writer. I had fallen into a cliche. A writer writing about a writer. Big yawn fest. All five files (all bits of the story, nothing whole) are filed away in the retired file.

Open new file, start again.

No ideas, nothing.

I was having writer's doubts.

I blogged about writer's doubts and also rejection.

I was still stuck in a rut.

I have clawed my way back out. I think its the new year and the new determination.

I am now writing a story. I have read blogs and on those blogs, people have wrote about the character taking over the story and the writer having to 'deal with it.' I never really understood. I always thought it was the imagination taking over the keyboard and sticking its fingers up to the 'story plan' and not the character. But some how a character has a poodle perm and now the whole story is going to be set in the 1980s. Bloody characters.

Without getting all 'appraisal' - I have set myself some targets resolutions directions for the following year:

• Write some short stories. (notice the word some - I'm not going to add number. Don't want to scare myself). 
• Think about that idea I had for novel two - maybe start expanding and maybe write a few words for this project. 
• Be proactive about that flash fiction / short story collection idea - write some. 
• Dabble in non-fiction. No pressure.