It’s
an expression that’s become more and more relevant to writers, especially those
who indie publish or hybrid publish (you know: part-indie, part-traditional). I
first became aware of the term from Kris Rusch, who wrote a post
about it back in 2013. The link to the video no longer seems to work, but you
can see it here. Go watch it (it has
kittens!) and come back.
Cute,
aren’t they? They’ve become a metaphor for this new world of publishing. As
Kris says in her post, writers are no longer limited by what traditional
publishing dictates. We can write what we want, when we want, and publish it
when we want. Which can lead to an interesting problem: which story do we pick
to write?
That’s
the quandary I’m in right now. I should be working on the fifth Mendenhall
Mystery but I didn’t get far before the second A’lle Chronicles Mystery started
singing its siren song. Then, as I was flipping back and forth, I got not one
but TWO great story ideas that Just. Won’t. Shut. Up. In the meantime, I’ve
been writing short stories and sending them out into wide world.
I
feel flushed with possibility and yet paralyzed by indecision. What’s a girl to
do?
