Day 108

So, the keynote here is that as writers, we should not repeat ourselves.

Repeat what?

I think what the bottom line is here is that we shouldn’t write basically the same thing over and over. I noticed that movies tend to take the view that if the first is successful, they just switch a few things around, substitute the bad guy, and it’s business as usual.

This was prevalent with a couple of John Wayne westerns, Rio Bravo and El Dorado. It was much the same with Superman 1, 2 and 3, and the Spiderman movies.

The thing is, I’m almost guilty as charged with several of my books. The problem is to get out of your comfort zone and write something completely different.

I have a YA fantasy story across three volumes about an unlikely princess saving the realm.

I am in the process of writing a Sci-Fi novel simply because I wanted to go into outer space. The only way I’ll ever get there is inside my imagination, and that being the case, it’s a riot.

I keep trying to write a romance novel, it has always fascinated me how the writers of Mills and Boon stories manage to fit them into 187 pages. I try, but brevity doesn’t;t seem to be my thing. At any rate, I get so far, and then it veers off into espionage.

I’m guessing I’m going to have to try harder not to veer off the path.