Category Archives: Two-in-One Thriller Project

Morning! As you know, I’ve finished the detailed plan for book baby 9. Maybe I’ll share a little photo later, but I digress… Now I’m planning book baby 10 in much the same way I planned book baby 9.

Obviously I’ve got a name for my hero (pssst… LUKE!) and I’ve got the rough plan all hammered out. Now I’m working on the detailed plan, including (as ever) a vision for the opening scene. As I’m sitting here staring into my sun-drenched garden, I can just about envision my hero waking up, switching on the news… Except. Well, I can’t **see** him. I can only see a **her.** My hero is talking to me in a female voice. And actually, the name is LUCY, not Luke. Where’d all that come from?

No idea, but I like it. So I’ve changed everything round, including the planned PoV (now first person–haven’t written in the first person in ages!) and adjusted relationships, with some interesting twists. Now I’m even MORE excited about this book baby. Wahoo! Who knows what else will happen while this one is maturing in the queue after book baby 9? ‪

#TwoInOneThrillerProject

‪#‎LoveBeingAnAuthor‬ Just decided that the main character in book baby #10 (the second of the two thrillers I’m planning right now) has a PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. I mean, why not? He’s a scientific rock star, so of course he’d have gone to the States for his PhD. In fact, his scientific rock stardom is the very crux to the novel. Oh, the power!

After a hard day’s work, the detailed outline–the “blueprint”, if you will–for Book Baby 9 (crime/thriller) is finished. Once I’ve transferred it into my “crib sheet format”, it will be ready to germinate and mature while I address myself to Book Bay 10 (psychological thriller). This whole two-at-once-planning project is proving quite fertile!

Pictured below (suitably blurred, obviously): the handwritten road map and the typed blueprint. Just in case you want to know how my mind works..

The handwritten road map for Book Baby 9…

… and the typed blueprint.

My two-in-one project is coming along nicely, if at a slightly more sedate pace than perhaps is usual for me. Then again, I **am** percolating two very different ideas all at once! After a few weeks of germinating and high-level research, the broad concepts stand for Story 1 (crime thriller) and Story 2 (psychological thriller-slash-crime). I’m ready for the nitty-gritty-heavy-duty-detail plan and research stage. ‪#‎AmPlotting‬ ‪#‎WatchThisSpace‬