My Brain Has Issues. Again.

So I was lying there the other night not sleeping, like you do, and I let my mind wander down toward my current work in progress.

If you’re paying attention, you may have noticed that book one of my new series, Cade and the Last Starship, just dropped. You should go check it out if you like exploration and unlikely heroes. Anyway, that entire series is written. I’m currently working on the next one.

No, I’m not telling you about it. Not yet. You gotta wait.

Deal with it.

Anyway, like I said, I let my mind wander on the next series. I’ve already got a decent start on it, but as always, there are things to fix. I hit on a minor plot fix that should help.

And then my mind decided to take a little detour. Now, I’m trying to sleep, of course, so I’m not exactly paying much attention to where my brain is leading me. I’m just trying to get a little shut-eye.

But next thing I know, I’m plotting out the series after the next one. Main character. Story arc. Antagonists. Titles. The whole she-bang. And since I’m not sleeping anyway, I take out my phone and I start typing away as the ideas, they keep coming.

And now I’m annoyed. See, I’m working on one series. I need to get it done. But here’s another series, and I’m excited for it, because of course I am. It’s got crazy stuff and a heroic main character that I want to know better and zany plot developments.

And my current series has a great main character and a setting that should be great to explore and unique situations. I love the main character so much, and her family is just perfect. Her relationships with her mom and her big brother are just amazing. I cannot wait for you to meet them.

But you know, you’re not going to meet them if I go and start plotting a whole other series!

Brain, why you do this to me? Go sleep!

And it didn’t sleep. Of course it didn’t. Why would it?

Anyway, I need to get to work on my current series before I can go to that zany land I dreamed up. My brain needs to learn to behave.

Oy.