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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Today I wrote

I solved my issues of the past two days. As you may recall, I tried to write this particular chapter only to stall out 1 1/2 pages in. Then I deleted most of it and started over. Then I realized I was going off in the wrong POV, so this morning I notebooked at the gym, what's my heroine like? What really happened to her before my story started, etc. I made several backstory adjustments, one of which simplified the story remarkably, and then tonight I wrote 4 pages. That's a lot for me. Unless I'm on fire, I don't typically do many more pages than that on a weekday.

The lesson is this: I was right about what was wrong. And I stopped trying to hash my way through in the wrong POV. I worked out my issues by brainstorming (aka notebooking) and working on my outline. I know the next few scenes and what happens the very next thing. Tomorrow, I hope to write the second half of the scene. I have to go to a meeting, so I'll have to get as much done during my son's soccer practice as possible. Last time I had to leave the cafe early because the music was way too loud and not to my taste. Ick. Better luck tomorrow I hope.

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