I’ve been reading about something called Appreciative Inquiry: It’s sort of pronoia for conversations, pronoia for business decisions. What I’ve gleaned thus far is this is all focusing on strengths, not on what you want to fix. It’s asking questions that bring people to recognize strong points and reach toward positive goals. It’s making me aware of how destructive it is to focus on how everyone and everything should change and get better. Whereas I feel much better about things and about myself if I focus on what’s right. Now, the AI people tell me this is transformative. Hope they’re right.
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OK, so it’s been a year. I’m nearly done with the book, and now I’m stuck, frozen with self-condemnation. What if it’s crap? What if I’m an idiot? OK, I’m making fun, but it’s that whole problem of being able to judge your work. How can you tell the difference between when you’re being like the skinny girl looking in the mirror and calling herself fat, and when you’re actually fat and really need to go on a diet? OK, not the perfect analogy, but you get the idea.
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I’ve been obsessing on the floor plans of my characters’ homes. During a break today I sketched them. Then, I did something unprecedented for me: I wrote in the evening. Actually, I rewrote the 7th chapter, which has been bugging me. Glad I did it. Tomorrow on my break, maybe I’ll write a description of one of my characters.It’s like a puzzle, you know. You just keep going back to it and turning the pieces this way and that to figure out how they fit together.
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