Stuck at Home #2: What are you working on?

My WIP is a novel I started writing several years ago and then pushed aside.

I found myself thinking so much about the characters and the setting over the last few months that I decided to pull out and review what I wrote (I think this was something from the mid- to late 2000s.) It just goes to show that some stories need time to percolate. In this instance, the setting and a character who was initially a secondary one, kept nagging at me.

The story is set in Memphis, Tenn., and is based around an old crime. While not a cold case -- that initial secondary character served time in prison before turning her life around -- there are plenty of people who believe she "took the rap" for someone else.

When two different people show up at her job asking questions that she and others would rather not answer, a new focus is put on her case.

Wow! I think I just solved this story's problem and why I put it aside. The main character I started with then ISN'T the protagonist. The good thing about writing this here: I've worked out several plot points in my head while typing about that character as a main character rather than as a secondary.

And now that I really think about it, maybe my writer subconscious knew I wasn't on the right track back then, but that the story idea itself was still viable.

Partners are assigned. It's just us.

So I guess I'm kind of at a 50/50 on the success vs failure ratio for what I'd talked about in the first part of this swap series. My Twitter RP storylines are still moving apace, so that's definitely one for the success column. My various open fanfic WiPs are still where they were, unfortunately, so I suppose that one goes in the failures column, as does NaPoWriMo, which only yielded me like 6 poems, I think? I'm kind of annoyed by that, not gonna lie.

But my OutlawQueen theme week project, which was also my CampNaNo project, was a smashing success, and I'm quite pleased about that. I managed to get the word count I needed for CampNaNo and also got the fic finished the way I wanted it to go. Well, it was actually a series of short stories/ficlets for the week's theme, but that still counts. LOL I'm pleased with what I got, and it gave me some great ideas for the future, so that always helps.