Think Out Loud: Trust your gut instinct

This is Think out Loud. It’s a weekly meme created to help bloggers break out from the blogging bubble. The rules are simple. We post whatever we want and let people know what’s in our mind. Visit the creator on Thinks Books and join too. It’s so cool to share your random thoughts.

For about two weeks I’m fighting the need to finish my second YA book. It’s one of those feelings, were I know I need to wait just a little more. What am I waiting you would ask and it’s a fair question.

Well, I am waiting for it to be real.

Have you ever felt like this while writing? I know what is going to be, how it will end, but I just find it wrong to sit and write it all down. So I write it word by word, sentence by sentence and the more I write, the more it changes.

It’s like my characters are alive again, demanding things to go their way and whatever I write is just not good enough. I must write the story as it actually happened, as if this is not fantasy but real events.

It’s kind of scary in a beautiful way.

But I’ve learned to listen to my gut instinct and I do go where the story/characters lead me. Despite that I usually have some other plan.

I’m really curious to see where it’ll lead me this time.