How is it March already? Where has 1/6th of the year gone? We're rushing towards the end of March and I'm not going to lie- I won't make my word deadline this month.
The terrible thing about timing is that just as I get busier and busier at work, the weather gets worse and worse and colder and colder. And that makes it hard to do the things that have to be done in a timely manner- which of course eats into writing time.
Deep down, I know this is all just a terrible excuse. But the part of my brain that feels tired and exhausted doesn't seem to care.
The good side of things is that I am scribbling here and there again. I see something that makes me think of a random scene, and I write it. So in that way, things are going well. I just need to have some coherent thought.
I also think that my approach to my contemporary novel I've been working on needs to be rethought. I think I'm trying to shoehorn too much into too small a space of time, and I can't create the overwhelming feeling of being a fish out of water that the main character needs to feel. So I'm going to have to rethink things, move the timing around (summer holidays will be better than spring break, I think), have the MC develop a relationship with a character who was in the background but clearly needs to be brought to the front and fleshed out more to make the story make any sense, and run from there. There needs to be more self discovery for the MC, and less just letting things happen to him. So we'll see where that goes.
The terrible thing about timing is that just as I get busier and busier at work, the weather gets worse and worse and colder and colder. And that makes it hard to do the things that have to be done in a timely manner- which of course eats into writing time.
Deep down, I know this is all just a terrible excuse. But the part of my brain that feels tired and exhausted doesn't seem to care.
The good side of things is that I am scribbling here and there again. I see something that makes me think of a random scene, and I write it. So in that way, things are going well. I just need to have some coherent thought.
I also think that my approach to my contemporary novel I've been working on needs to be rethought. I think I'm trying to shoehorn too much into too small a space of time, and I can't create the overwhelming feeling of being a fish out of water that the main character needs to feel. So I'm going to have to rethink things, move the timing around (summer holidays will be better than spring break, I think), have the MC develop a relationship with a character who was in the background but clearly needs to be brought to the front and fleshed out more to make the story make any sense, and run from there. There needs to be more self discovery for the MC, and less just letting things happen to him. So we'll see where that goes.
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