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Tightening 2 weeks ago

I made the changes that I envisioned a few days ago, and I think they are good ones. It makes the plot tighter and better-paced, as well as adding some of the concrete detail that I need. Now the beginning chapter takes you right into the big change and has more appeal, especially to the reluctant reader I am trying to target.

My next step is the harder one: going forward with the plot. This is always my biggest challenge, and I am somewhat resistant, because I’m not sure where exactly to go. I have to get over the resistance, face the fear, bite the bullet, and just keep writing. Where I’m going will hopefully come into focus once I start going there. :)



CallMeHeather is starting over

maybe this doesn't count 2 weeks ago

but I was asked to illustrate a children’s book for a friend and I’ve got about…half of the pictures drawn. Illustrating a children’s book is pretty close to my goal but I really want to come up with something that is totally my own. Good step in the write direction though



Things are looking up. 2 weeks ago

After a week or so of feeling down about the book, I am back in the swing of things. During a boring work training I had to attend, I let my mind wander and the wandering led me to a solution of a problem that I knew existed for my plot. This solution got me excited, and I started coming up with some other ideas for improvements in the setting description. (The trainer was so happy: he thought that I was excited about what he was saying!)

So now I have some new inspirations, a plan of where to go from here, and more changes to make.

Hurrah!


Oof. 3 weeks ago

D’s extended comments on the manuscript so far really got me down. Maybe this is no good after all?

I know I can’t let others’ opinions let me falter, but that’s easier said than done. If this novel that I’ve been working on for almost a year (albeit very slowly) really won’t work, I’m going to take a tremendous hit in my self-concept as a writer.

It will play on the underlying concern: what if I really don’t have any writing talent?



Write a children's book 1 month ago

...about climate change



Tiff99 http://blueskies-minnie.blogspot.com/

Having said.. 1 month ago

... that I’d put this goal off for a while, I got a flash of inspiration and started drawing.. created my first storyboard, and am really pleased with it!



Still frustrated. 1 month ago

Another two hours, and less than two pages. I know it’s not a race, but it’s frustrating to put so much work in and get so little out. I wonder why I am so stuck?

Oh, well. At least I’m writing with some frequency.



Katie 's bicycle brakes do not work in the rain....

Untitled 1 month ago

I actually co-wrote a children’s play. Not quite the same as a story but I’m putting it in as ‘achieved’ anyway, cause the play had a story in it.
Me and a colleague wrote this ‘eco’ play for our pre-schoolers to do at the nursery’s summer open day. It was a Hare-and-the-Tortoise-type-fable with our eco heroes winning the race despite the eco baddies best attempts at sabotage. It was kinda cute!



astroballerina is hanging out.

Hooray 1 month ago

I am so excited: the book is finished! I just sent the completed manuscript to the illustrator. I can’t believe that I actually met my deadline! Life is good.

And now that it’s done… I’m already planning the sequel! =)



So frustrated! 1 month ago

Last night, I wrestled – I mean wrote- for an hour and a half, the words kicking and screaming, resisting their addition to the page. The intensely frustrating hour and a half netted me a thrilling seven-eights of a page completed.

Is this a sign that I need to re-envision the plot? Or is this normal ebb and flow of writing?

Auggggghhhhhh!



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