{"id":4987,"date":"2012-09-19T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2012-09-19T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T15:00:21","slug":"i-have-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=4987","title":{"rendered":"I Have an Idea…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Ideas are easy. It\u2019s the execution that\u2019s often hard. I\u2019ve found that, the more I write, the more ideas I have. I think that\u2019s probably true with most any writer\u2014or really any creative person, no matter what their medium.<\/p>\n

Right now I\u2019m on book three of the Monster Haven<\/em> series. Initially, it was supposed to end at three, but my editor poked at me a little, and I realized I\u2019d been building up to a much bigger arc. When book three ends, things shift into high gear. My editor even pointed to a scene way back in the middle of book one where I\u2019d done some foreshadowing without even realizing it.<\/p>\n

So, including the book I\u2019m working on right now, that\u2019s four more books in the series. In addition, I have a second series, a spinoff of the first, that encompasses three more books. Now we\u2019re up to seven books I have yet to write.<\/p>\n

Then what?<\/p>\n

Well, before I ever started the Monster Haven<\/em> series, I\u2019d started a book called Bargain Basement<\/em>. I loved the story. I still do. But I wasn\u2019t ready to write it yet. It\u2019s about an inter-dimensional basement that\u2019s been sold as part of several houses across the country. Each new homeowner only finds out they\u2019re sharing their basement with several other families after they\u2019ve moved in. It gets complicated from there and involves doorknobs programmed to the owner\u2019s DNA, people getting trapped in the basement, a second door down there opening into other dimensions, a shady real estate guy who actually owns the house with the real basement in it. It\u2019s complex. I wasn\u2019t ready. After I\u2019ve written all nine Zoey and Kam books, I think I\u2019ll be able to tackle it.<\/p>\n

But wait, there\u2019s more!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also letting a book called The Psychedelic Peacock<\/em> marinate while it waits its turn. This one\u2019s about a floating business in its own pocket universe. It shows up in a town for a few days or a week as a caf\u00e9, a beauty salon, a bar, a bookstore\u2014whatever. The employees are all the same, but they take on whatever character is necessary for each \u201cshow.\u201d People who are invited are given whatever they need, whether it\u2019s justice or help. Kind of like Fantasy Island<\/em>, I guess, but much darker and sometimes people don\u2019t make it home after their adventure. And the story itself revolves around the employees, not the visitors.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m definitely not ready to write that one yet, but it\u2019s stewing.<\/p>\n

At two books a year, with nine more books in me at the moment, that covers the next four-and-a-half years. I\u2019ve got plenty of time for new ideas to bubble to the surface before the well runs dry.<\/p>\n

If nothing new comes to me in all that time, I\u2019ll be hitting you up for inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ideas are easy. It\u2019s the execution that\u2019s often hard. I\u2019ve found that, the more I write, the more ideas I have. I think that\u2019s probably true with most any writer\u2014or really any creative person, no matter what their medium. Right now I\u2019m on book three of the Monster Haven series. Initially, it was supposed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[534],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process","tag-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}