I’m working hard on The Sorceress and her Lovers.  I’m right in the middle of chapter 11 (of 25 plotted).  So far, all of the Senta books have come in shorter than I originally plotted them– 21 or 23 chapters instead of 25– because as I write I combine some things and move others around.  This time though, I plotted shorter chapters.

Anyway, the other night before bed, after I had taken a sleeping pill, I had a rash of story ideas that I wrote down.  I’m substituting letters for names here.  A turns on B.  We find out that C is working for D the whole time.  D plots to get E.  F meets G when she shouldn’t.  H saves I’s life.  C saves the life of J, leading us to think he’s all right, when he’s really in league with D.  F and J give us two very different stories about what happened between the two of them in between the last book and this one.

I expected when I went back to look at these ideas the next day, that they would be really bad.  Sleeping pills don’t usually aid creativity, though they may make you think they do at the time.  But all of the ideas except one (F meets G when she shouldn’t) actually work.  In fact that other one works too, but it’s not right for the story.  So, now I’m kind of excited to get them worked into the book.  I’ll keep you up to date.