While I sit and wait for the final edit to come back for a finished manuscript I write the teaser for the new book. That has been my pattern for the past four novels. Something is different this time. I don’t want to mess it up! If someone actually went back and looked at the teasers and compared them to the beginning of the novels they would see that they don’t match! What actually happens when you are writing a book is that it evolves over the period of the process and what you start out thinking you are going to write is not necessarily what you end up with. In most cases that means the beginning needs to be altered to make it fit with the end.
I am currently writing Disrupted Lives and I know what I want to say and I know where it is going to end, but I am trying so hard to make sure that the beginning is true to where it needs to be.
I am also, for the first time, having a hard time developing these characters. I want to make them real – in a real time frame. I have been researching the history of when they lived and what they must have been feeling, and I feel this ominous responsibility to not mess it up. Strange, considering it’s fiction!
