Category: Writing

Only afternoon session. Apparently I really needed sleep.

Probably will have to do session two by hand, won’t write up til after midnight, but just in case i get more done….

Mmm, theremin.

music: Godspeed you black emperor!

So Fridays apparently don’t work for me.

Or maybe it’s pep talks?

This week – for non-writing reasons – has not been good. It happens.

I was really excited about what i was going to write tonight – there was a great start, i really wanted to see where the story went. But I was drained. Tired. Just not up to it. I didn’t want to sit down at all, I wanted to curl up and read, or watch something stupid on netflix.

But writers write. That’s what you do. You write. There are no mental health days.

And sure, I may have not really written the scene – this should have been another 1k words, at least, but the last 250 was really just a bullet list of the sequence of events more than anything resembling story.

But I wrote.

ooh! plot twist! I love it when I just make up plot twists!

We get to the middle. Which to me is the muddle. So far, okay. We are moving.

edited to add: now only 1100 down. Was a bit over 2k down on Friday, so not bad.

Plot thing is really helping.

Now if I could just work on that pesky self-editing problem.

Read some stuff on story structure that has really helped me stage my scenes. Took a couple days to process though. Today was a lot easier to write-I suspect it will continue to pay off more and more.

I like the plot whisperer stuff but I find it too intricate for the first draft–I just want enough that leaves it open-ended, but gives me somewhere to go to find the next scene.

all hand written (train again!) and transcribed. Probably should have pushed another 800 tonight, but I’m content to have made goal for today, and added some more make up to Tuesday.

also, it’s going a bit more smoothly.
edited to add:

music: Devotchka, Charlotte Mittnacht

ooh this one has been pulling teeth today! Had wanted to reach my day goal this morning, so that anything on the train or tonight would be catchup for Friday or Tuesday. But I’m still 400 down and I need to get ready. Must put butt in seat again for 20 minutes before I leave. Maybe knock out a description or two.

Had to work late.

Bah, humbug.