The way I write is that I'll be driving down the road one day and I see a billboard that gives me an idea for a story. Or I hear something on the radio. As soon as practicable I jot down the idea and put it in my "projects folder". If I finish something, then I can go look in the projects folder for something else to do.
The other way this happens is that I'm reviewing something I already wrote, and which one of my kind readers has notified me has a mistake of some kind in it. I also review stories when a reader makes a specific comment such as "I loved the ending of chapter three." I go look and see how chapter three ended. Believe it or not, I can't remember the details of all 300 books and stories I've written.
So I'll be re-reading a book and think "Oooo, it could have gone this way!"
So I write it "this way". The plot is similar, but the characters are different. It's kind of like the way I do Alpha, Bravo and Charlie versions of the same book.
Some of you have heard all this before, but I wanted to remind you because I'm going to put up a two chapter "re-thinking" of some other things I've written.
It's called Preparing Amanda for Marriage. It won't go behind the pay wall until it's combined into an anthology of short stories that gets marketed, so you can take your time reading it.
It's basically about a father (who happens to be a teacher) who actually looks at the curriculum for what is called "Sexual Education" in his school. He feels like it does nothing to prepare young people for becoming sexual adults. He feels compelled to give his daughter some home schooling on the subject, since she has been asked to prom.
As I said, old plot, new characters.
I hope you read it and I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for reading.
Bob