Are you ever terrified of stepping out of your comfort zone?What about changing something, just because?
I've been debating cutting my hair for... lemme think... four years now? But I won't because I might hate it. Might. Maybe. Who knows? I'm not in love with it now, but what if it's worse?
With another chance for a master's program looming on the horizon (yes, I said the same thing last spring, I am eternally hopeful that I will get back to school) I'm gnawing my nails and worrying about change. Can I go back to being a full-time adult?
Er... I meant student. Definitely student. I'm an adult now. Ignore the fact that I work from home and make my own hours and my own rules. I answer to no one! It's like being a three-year old with a credit card and car keys! Wheeeee!
Change scares me.
Sometimes I'm so frozen with What If... that I let every opportunity pass me by.
What if...? should be a writer's tool, not a stumbling block.
What if aliens landed during your wedding and stole your groom?
What if nuclear winter sent the human race into a tunnel-swelling species?
What if there really was a corpse in my FMC's freezer instead of the dead pig?
Last night a conversation with Amy Laurens (and several fabulous people from Twitter! Luv ya!) turned into the conviction that a dead pig was not enough. My FMc just found out she might be a clone, her fiancee is cheating on her, and her promotion has been denied.
To easy.
Now I'm making her a murder suspect.
Because change is a good thing.
I can change my hair on a whim, but changing up a story is even harder :) You're a brave woman!
ReplyDeleteI'm the same way about my hair. My mom and sister constantly nag me about getting it cut short, but I don't like my hair short.
ReplyDeleteI definitely have a comfort zone and I'm definitely not always a fan of having to step outside that. Good luck with the changes to the book.
ReplyDeleteDead pig is #1 when in bacon form, but otherwise, always go with the dead body.
ReplyDelete*thinks*
What if...someone reads my comment and not the post and ends up thinking I'm a psycho?
Meh. Most people already think that, so I'm good. :)
Angela @ The Bookshelf Muse
Mysti - I only go after my hair when I'm stressed.
ReplyDeleteHeather- Me too! I don't like it to short, and I don't like hair in my face.
Stephanie - The first change was easy, but then it started messing up my timeline. Little changes can mean a big change overall. It can still work, it's just not as easy as I thought it would be.
Angela- At this point in my google-search career I'm sure Homeland Security probably stops by every now and then. Mystery writers must cause such headaches for Big Brother.
I used to be that way about my hair, then I get bored and do something drastic, like recently dying it blonde. Everyone loves it. I hate it. Can't win every time but you can't lose every time either.
ReplyDeleteI love playing the what if game, it's pretty much one of the ways I world build. You'd be surprised what it can bring you to.