Is It Too Late To Come Back?

I write this post, trying to gain some new ground. I'm pretty sure I haven't written a word of fiction for a year. And yet I have a box filled with half-finished fiction.

Just seems so hard to come back to it. Did Hemingway have dry spells? Vonnegut? Heller? Bradbury?

I'm 25,000 words into a crime fiction caper and have been dying to return to my characters. I've also been itching to write Mr. Dead Eyes 2. I'm also working on a sci-fi thriller involving visitors from the future.

Right now I'm fully focused on narration. 30 different projects. I've read some good books this past year, and each one has been needling me to finish my own writing projects.

But after a solid year of no new words?

Is it possible?

Maybe I should finish all my narration gigs first. Or should I just jump back in, guns blazing?

What do you think?





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2011, a look back

Here are the books I have read in 2011:

Mentor

Ancestor

The List

Survivor

Post Office

Teacher Man

Dear American Airlines

Last Known Victim

Blaze

Peter & The Starcatchers

Fanboy & Goth Girl

Mile 81

In Cold Blood

The House of Thunder

Your Heart Belongs to Me

Rage

The Good Guy

The Man who loved Books too Much

Lemons Never Lie

In The Night Room

Ham on Rye

That's Not in My American History Book

Afraid

Sh*t My Dad Says

Playing for Pizza

Be the Monkey - a dialog between Barry Eisler and JA Konrath

It's Always Something

2030

Other Kingdoms

Danse Macabre

This Book is Overdue

The Elephant went to Hollywood

Blockade Billy

My Lucky life in and out of Show Buisness

Squirrel seeks Chipmunk

Official Book Club Selection

The Island of Dr. Moruea

Playing for Keeps

The Day After

Sunken Treasure

Heaven is For Real

The Professor and The Mad Man

Unkillable

Musciophilia

The Storyteller

Cell

The Colorado Kid

A Million Little Pieces

Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life

Always Looking Up

I Like You

The Last Lecture

Stories I told Myself

The Bride Collector

Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim

The Time of My Life

Wishful Drinking

Naked

Born Standing up

Dreams From My Father

My Reading Life

The Audacity of Hope

Scratch Beginings

Handle With Care

The Doomsday Club

My Boring-Ass Life

The Tenth Justice

The Girl who Played With Fire

Son of Groucho

The Last Bookstore in America

Origin

How to tell a story and other Essays

Darkness Under The Sun

Truck Stop

UR

Brian's Hunt

Brian's Return

What I'll be up to in 2012:

In the year ahead I plan on writing more short stories and novellas. I usually plan a book a year but hopefully will get the ball rolling on some stand alone stuff.

Hope everyone has a very happy new year!

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

— L.M. Montgomery