Well, I suppose if you read my blog that you know emotionally I've been up and down. I've worried and fretted, and amazingly enough I'm still breathing.
Today has been a tremendously productive day for me.
It's amazing really. I tinkered with my 4,5, and 6 blocks. I have to send them to Janie this weekend. I'm okay with them. Not thrilled but okay.
You see, what I'm learning is this. Which it's amazing when you pay attention to how you do things. I'm writing strictly from my block. I'm writing this by section so I know I'm going to have many transitions, but I'm not thinking about that right now. I'm thinking only of getting my pivotal scenes, happenings and events onto the page. I wrote three sections today. They are not very long. I'm finding that each one of my sections is running anywhere from five to seven pages double spaced. Still if you think about it that's a lot of work. Which means if I continue in this vein and do not allow myself to get distracted I'll have completed the sections for block two by this weekend.
I'm very happy about this.
I know it doesn't mean much to those of you who don't work this way, but it means a great deal to me. I started printing out my section sheets and putting them in the big black notebook. Everyday another section gets added and maybe if I have good days like today I add three.
This is progress. This is the ant moving a tiny pile of sugar from one place to another. It doesn't feel like you're doing much to begin with but after two weeks of writing I'm feeling better about my output.
Section seven is still going to need serious work though I'm afraid. I haven't posted it yet because I'm going to need to revise it a bit more. However, that being said, I'm still moving forward. Tomorrow I tackle section eight. Yeah me!
Spells is getting written slowly but surely.
The one thing I've got to go back over carefully with is the tension. Not sure if I'm supposed to work on this now or not, but I'm worried about the sexual tension. Right now Gwen is just scared and I can hardly blame her for it. I'd be scared half out of my mind. But see Gwen is not me. She's much stronger mentally than I am. She looks at the world much differently than I do. What a blessing to be able to write that. She is still modern and contemporary as story characters go, but I'm just glad she isn't me. See Janie, all that character work we've been doing is paying off.
Thanks the heavens...
Now I think I'll just go to bed. It's been a good day.
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You sound most productive, my dear!
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