Drifting Between Projects

I’ve always had a few projects running at once. Some people call it distraction, I call it momentum.

Right now, I’m slowly working on several:

• What We Carry Forward, the continuation of Between the Echoes, which explores what healing looks like after the dust has settled.

• Beneath Us, which started as a sinkhole story but has evolved into something deeper (and stranger) about survival, community, and humor in chaos.

• The Values Project, built around an exercise I’ve used with teams and veterans alike to help people rediscover what truly drives them.

• And a couple of untitled works that keep tugging at my attention, one blending memories and orange groves, another rooted in the blurred morality of those who’ve seen too much.

  
  

People sometimes ask why I jump between them instead of finishing one before starting the next. The truth is, they’re all connected. Each one speaks to a different season of my life, a different way of making sense of things. When one project grows quiet, another starts whispering.

Writing, for me, isn’t about forcing one story into the spotlight; it’s about listening to whichever one is ready to speak. Some days that means diving into trauma and healing. Other days, it’s wrestling reptilians in a Florida sinkhole. Either way, it’s all part of the same journey.

If you’re a creative type too, how do you handle the pull of multiple ideas? Do you chase one at a time, or let them all run their course?

"This is where the writing starts, long before the page, in the moments you can’t forget. Every project I work on circles back here in some way."