Eleven days until I start writing. Ack!

I still have a lot of work to do and will be busting my hump right up until the last moment more than likely. Maybe I won't though. I'm trying not to do that. But I've changed this story so completely and hopefully for the better that I have to re-plot. Plotting is not a strong point for me, so I have to work extra hard to make sure I have all my t's crossed and my i's dotted.

But I'm having fun with this story again. I'm actually still not allowing myself to randomly day dream the story. I have to come and write down notes instead of letting it play out in my head like a movie reel. I highly recommend this tactic if you're blocked.

I actually fiddled around with some artwork today as well. I've hurt my arm scooping poop up at the barn. Ouch! It's par for the course for my week. It's been crazy around here but we're holding up pretty good so far.

Accomplished today:

Back story M & T relationship
A comparison table between T & S of strength and weaknesses or rather more like differences.

Began work on solidifying M's character sheet. I've found her static trait. Now I've got to work on the guys.

Work Update: Revision

Progress Report:
Revised pages 15
New pages 5 (maybe more it's still on 10:25)
Music: Your Guardian Angel: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus


This post is primarily about having a vision and then revising that vision as work progresses, or as some say 'on the fly'. It would drive a lot of people mad to work this way. Not so much for me, because I guess in the last five years I have come to understand that to write really means re-write. Ha! I'm the queen of re-write. Good thing it doesn't bother me. *laughing*

Anyway, my day pretty much consisted of signing up at the YMCA, working out, coming home, teaching school, working on the books, and finally writing. Well, actually I re-wrote some four to five pages this morning from the hours of 5:45 and 7:30.


I wonder if this new spurt of productivity is coming from diet and rest. I have been going to bed at a decent hour (meaning before Midnight which to me is going to bed early and sometimes hitting the hay as early as 10:30). Getting up earlier, of course, coincides with going to bed earlier too.

I have also been dieting with my husband. After quitting smoking for the umteenth time, I really went crazy over Christmas making cookies and such and eating them all. No, I didn't share, nasty human that I am.

So, I realized today that I'm really and truly over the habit. (smoking) I have been more stressed over money, job, job loss you name it over the last six months that if I didn't go back to smoking through all this I know I never will. I do not have the desire in any way shape or form for a cigarette.

I'm proud of myself for that.

I also gave myself permission to be nuts for four months which made me gain a good bit of weight. But quitting smoking seemed to empower me. If I could do that? What else can I do? God forbid maybe finish writing a book? Lose weight? The world is full of possibilty.

This is my year.

I'm going to make it my year no matter what life throws at me. I'm on track. It's now or never. I've got to make a stand!!!
Yeah!!!! (Fist pumping in the air) LOL...