Several years ago, I attended several writing seminars. In each of them, they told us that to be a writer, you needed to write; they said that you should force yourself to write every day. I don't understand that idea. I don't want to write something that I am not proud of, and if I were to make myself write something without feeling ready to write it, I am certain that it would not be good. I certainly would not want to use something that I forced myself to write in a book, perhaps it wouldn't matter if I just forced myself to write something that I would throw away, but I don't see the point. I don't believe that you can make yourself better at writing by writing garbage.

I have not written much since I finished my second novel, A God's First World. It's difficult to get motivated sometimes when you don't get feedback about your work from very many people. I have an idea for a third novel in the Infused series, but I think that I might want to work on something else for a while - give readers with different tastes something to try.

I am not one to stay strictly in a genre - I'm not entirely sure how the two novels that I have written should be classified. Infused is a modern times science fiction novel mostly, but also a story about a person that does not really relate to society. A God's First World has the science fiction angle, but is based in a more fantasy type world, and half of the story is very much a romance. With Geoff's abilities, I could easily write books in a number of different genres about him.

In between writing the first two Infused novels, I did write the first seven chapters of a fantasy story, but I got hung up on the best way to write battle scenes. I also have developed characters for a government agent type of story - although I know the main character very well, I don't have a very defined story yet. So, I am just writing bits and pieces of character points that I could intersperse with the story (once I know what it is).

So, I am waiting for inspiration, or at least some good motivation to decide what I should work on.