I have learned that when I begin developing a new idea, the project may go in a direction I never expected. For example, when I started working on My Guest Book, the book had a different name, style, and content. In fact, I completed the first draft, wrote an introduction for it, finished the first round of editing, began the second round of editing, and only then did it somehow entirely change into what is now published as My Guest Book, which one of my readers called my "best work yet" — which still sounds funny to me because some call it a form of poetry and I know I'm not a poet.
Years ago, I read an article written by a member of the writing community and wrote a blog post in response to it. That gave me the idea to write a short memoir about the time I got to spend with my grandmother, but eventually one thing led to another, and now that tiny project has turned into something completely unexpected...
