I dislike reading the back of novels because it often gives away too much. I dislike so-called prologues that are just a scene from the middle of the novel put at the beginning to fulfill the need to ‘start in the middle.’ Many of the blurbs give away too much information about stuff that happens well past the beginning of the book. Well, I recently read the worst hook I’ve ever seen. It was about something that happens at 85% of the way through the book. So, basically, the author gave away the beginning of the wrap-up. If I’d known that before I started the novel, I wouldn’t have read it, even though it was an interesting idea, but badly executed.
It got me thinking about how I would have written the idea. It’s been a while since I’ve thought about a novel outside of my series or something I’ve already written. Since I write character-based fiction, I like revisiting my characters a few years later and see what I think about where they might be. And my French series is something that doesn’t look like it’s ready to wrap up anytime soon.
It can be fun to play around with a new idea, and I have time to putter with it before November, when it’s good to have a first draft to write. I thought it was going to be the outline or a beginning draft for book six in the French series, but it could be the outline or beginning draft for this story idea. Pretty sure it won’t be the actual first draft since I do my best not to write a crazy amount in November. It depends on what I want to work on prior to November.