As you may know from recent blog entries, I've been really struggling with my work-in-progress, The Guiser, for the past few months. It's got to the point where I really don't want to use it for my conference workshop, because I'm sick of trying to sort out the plot!

I thought about reviving my 2YN project, but that's still at too early a stage of development to be usable - I have to get a writing sample to the conference by June 6th! So, I've been sorting through my "trunk novels" to see if there isn't something worth resurrecting. It's been an interesting exercise, seeing all the promising stories that just foundered completely after a few chapters because I had no idea where to take the story or how to develop the initial idea into a novel-length work. I'm hoping that I can bring my experience of outlining for NaNoWriMo to these projects and turn them into completed books - there are some really nice ideas and characters in there, and I know it's going to be fun spending time with these old friends :)