The following are the notes I wrote for this blog post:  Don't leave one WIP (work in progress) to start another. Finish what you start! Once is fine, but when the number of new WIPs approaches more than five, we have a problem. That's it. That is the whole post. If I can just master the three bullets above, I can be a better writer, a writer that finishes first drafts.  It's no secret on the internet that coming up with new ideas before finishing the current one is a universal problem among aspiring and even accomplished writers.  Psst... the secret is to discover your own personal strategy to leverage this abundance of creativity into completed tasks. These are my rules, for me. Maybe they can inspire you. Bullet Number one: Don't leave on WIP to start another.        It happens every time. Sometimes I am three chapters into my first draft and sometimes I'm 75% into the draft when the second book forces its way to the forefront of ...

    Welcome to my first blog series... This is the first of many in a series where I share with readers and other writers why I am bad at being an independently published author. Search the internet, and you will find hundreds, if not thousands, of aspiring romance authors with novellas and novels published on Amazon. With Goodreads pages and Pinterest accounts, Spotify playlists and caffeinated drinks, they share aesthetically pleasing pictures of their book nooks and latest hardcover purchases. I am they. They are me.  We are passionate and inspired. We love love, are obsessed with tortuous paths towards happy endings. So desperate for the next seductive tale, we have turned towards writing our own stories, creating our own characters, and indulging in our own escapism.   We get too excited.  I will calm down and speak for myself. See, I get too excited.  Sometimes inspiration sneaks up on me in the form of a subtle thought just as I'm about to clos...