Moving Forward

Hello there. I want to update this blog once a week, every Friday. But tonight it’s 2 A.M. and I’ve been struck with inspiration, so enjoy! Since finishing my novel H, I’ve been at a standstill. Where should I go? What should I do? I have several ideas for second novels floating around in the ol’ noggin of mine, but none of them seem as inviting as H. I don’t want to just write a second novel, I want to write a second novel that smashes H out of the ball-park. I want people to go, “Now this is a kid who knows how to write.” I want people to know that Kenneth Clay is a literary genius. Okay, maybe that’s a bit too much, but I think you get what I’m trying to say. This second novel can’t just be another H. Sure, it needs to have some similarities just to be marketable.(writing a second novel completely different from your first is a career-killer move, in my opinion) But it also needs to be unique in it’s own way. It has to have uumph and wow factor. I have this idea for a novel called Epoch. It’s about a man who abandons his wife, kids, and job in L.A. for a life in a small-town located in Michigan. It sounds pretty good, right? (or, at least, I hope it’s good) But it’s not unique enough. To write this novel and be happy about it, I’d need something in it that would give me creative freedom. For H, what gave me creative freedom, was the POV from a narcissist, and the high amount of drug-use in the novel. But what gives me creative freedom in Epoch? I haven’t quite figured that out yet. Perhaps I could go with my original idea for my first novel, How To Go Back in Time, a sci-fi mystery about a time-loop. But it seems too different from H. And when you’re writing your second novel, you want some similarities to carry over from your first. Who knows what I’ll do at this point. Right now, I’m just focusing on building my platform, and getting my name out there. So, dear reader, I bid you adieu. Have a good day\evening/night.