The showering for ideas has begun in earnest. I get all my best ideas in the shower - and I got several really good ones tonight and immediately wrote them all down. I'm truly jazzed now and can't wait to get started. I guess it wasn't much of a secret that the book I'd decided to write was a new Adriana Hofstetter mystery, given I've been doing one every other year and 2017 was the year. But I think what was holding me back and keeping me less than thrilled about it, despite coming up with a great title and setting, was that the 2016 book had been an off-shoot of of Adriana and she'd even made an appearance in it. I just couldn't work up enthusiasm these past two weeks, even though I'd had fun writing the couple of rough paragraphs. But while I love that series, creating something brand new that I've never done before is much more exciting for me and also much scarier as I'm creating brand new characters and setting and world. I haven't really done one of those since Red Gold, although the Bronstein book was the most fun I've ever had writing a book and it was, in essence, completely original despite the character having already existed in the Adriana books.
