After rereading The Cooper Files and starting to work on an outline for the rewrite, I found I lacked motivation for that particular story at this particular time. Then there were a few weeks of not writing much. I suppose everyone needs a break from time to time.
Then I started to feel the itch again. I've been making an effort to read more broadly in the YA and urban fantasy fields, since I still think the tone/voice of The Teardrop Game could be refined a bit. I read Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr and that got me to thinking about how much fun it is to create a world and run with it. Which in turn got the wheels spinning in my head.
A few weeks later, I'm 20,000 words into my first sequel. For now it's called Chaos Ward and it picks up three years after The Teardrop Game ends. Most of my main characters are the same, and writing about them again is really pretty fun. It's like hanging out with old friends.
