I’ve done two novels the last couple years.  This year, with additional time on my hands, I thought I’d go for 3 novels.

I had 3 perfectly good ideas.

The first idea was about a 16-year-old girl (named Kiora) who needs Secret Service Protection.  My second idea was Harry Potter and the Giant Prehistoric Chicken.  And idea number three was about a novelist who gets derailed from their novel while trying to get fired from their job.

And that was when two shiny, new ideas came out of nowhere, and decided they wanted to be written. 

Idea number 4 was about a girl who commits suicide and ends up in the underworld.  And idea number 5 was a sequel to my 2006 novel.

So that left me with 5 ideas, and two weeks.  While 5 novels in one month is certainly possible, I’m not at all ready for that kind of committment.  So my plan was to keep planning the 1st 3 ideas, and start working on the other 2 ideas, and on Halloween, see which 3 I felt like writing.

I realized a couple days later that idea #3 and idea #5 could be combined.  After all, the female main character in #5 wanted to be a writer.  Her greatest wish is to be a best-selling author.  So what better way than to have her do NaNo, and get completely derailed from her attempt.  And she becomes more disillusioned with her job, which she can’t exactly quit because she is going to school full-time, and she has bills to pay.  

So part of the problem was solved.  But that still left me with 4 ideas, and that was when I realized I could combine idea #2 and idea #4.  Harry Potter and friends end up in the underworld in the search for the Giant Prehistoric Chicken.  I decided to leave out the suicidal girl for this one, and shift it over to the newly combined ideas of 3 and 5.

In the next few days, I’ll probably talk about my 3 plots in-depth.  Expect to see a post about my magical binder, and I’ll probably even talk about the two shiny new ideas too.