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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Writing Wednesday: How about a book about this...?

I've been a bad blogging author and I apologize for the long time between posts. Please don't spank me too hard, okay? *wink* Anyway, I'm back. It's Wednesday and this means it's "Writing Wednesday".

I work from home, and once a month my boss makes me come into the office. Probably to make sure I'm still breathing and that I didn't just put the headphones on my cats to let them take the calls while I pound out wonderful stories for you, my dear readers. *wink* Anyway, so I actually saw people yesterday. In addition to the comments about my continued weight loss there were also comments about my writing. And one of my coworkers offered up this gem:

"How about a story about someone who wins a dream date with one of his stars and when the star goes on the dream date its another man? So it's like...two guys."

I grinned. "I can write that," I said.

"Really?"

"Yeah. I've written male/male stuff before. It's fun," says I with a big grin on my face.


The problem with being an author is that the plot bunnies are everywhere. Ideas abound. As much as I adore my coworkers telling me they want to be in a book (which reminds me, someone gets to be an alien named Sam Adams and don't ask....), I have so many ideas now that I'll never get them all written. One of the most common things people say to writers is "have you thought about writing about X?" or "wouldn't a book about Y be interesting?"

Yeah, it might be. But I also might not be the writer for that kind of story. I mean, I love my friend's plot idea, and as a M/M story line it has possibilities. Does it grab me? No, not really. I have story ideas I'm passionate about, and they're all on my big "to do" list in my den. I'm sure that idea will work, in the right hands.. and so I say, "how about a book about this...?" and throw the idea to the winds.

I'm sure eventually it will find a home, like a good plot bunny should.

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