A question for all you creative types

[malada]

After a prolonged drought I've started writing again. A few months back I finally finished a novel (fantasy) that I had started years ago as a prequel to a novel I wrote a decade (?) ago.

Both need major rewrites.

Just before the corona virus hit Big Time I had the idea for a runaway virus - Captain Trips* style - and the people who survive it. The characters are coming to me fairly easily and I've got an idea where it's headed... but I'm not sure it's the best time to write such a story.

I'm considering just outlining the virus story and shelving it. I'd like to go back to my characters in the fantasy setting because there's more fun stuff to explore.

What do you folks think?

-m

*Captain Trips was the nickname for the disease than ravaged the world in Stephen King's "The Stand". My version has a 90% infection rate and a 1 in 5,000 chance of survival if you do catch it. Yeah. Grim.

Comments

[reynardo]

Absolutely write it! Things will have changed so much by the time you've finished it.

In fact, your idea to do the outline is excellent. And then you'll know if it's calling you to do the whole thing, or as you suggested and just leave it to simmer for a bit while you go back to the others.

(I am editing the Big Book - up to section G, with H and I to go, but this is only a first edit *sigh*).

[moxie_man]

Go with your muse whatever it wants while you feel the creativity.