The shiny new writing project…

Distracts me.

Yes, I have been writing a little each day or several times a week. But it’s random scenes and characters that I want to get out of my brain. It is not related to any of my writing/editing goals.

It’s not Red Hour, which I really want to get back to but I keep telling myself to finish my edits first—and query already!—and yet…

Here’s 14 pages about a Rapunzel-like young women locked away from the world because she has so much magical power that the council of elders providing warrior trainers to care for her want to protect her from people who could use her power against the world or people who would kill her before she can master it.

Or 14 pages about a woman who is trying to free the Lord of Night from a curse before his kingdom is ravaged by war from his neighbor. (No reason it’s the same number of pages as the first example)

Or 91 pages about a rogue shifter clan in the mountains who rescued a human-raised woman (that didn’t know she was part-shifter) from a witch who can mark them and force them into her service trapped in their animal forms.

Or 75 pages about a witch and vampire falling in love. Folks, I don’t even read vampire romance books!

What is it about a new idea that makes us turn our focus from the work that is almost complete?

Help me put away the shiny thing and get back to work!