Wednesday, January 17, 2007
More Progress! Exept what if -- somebody make that whiny voice go away!
Today my life didn't implode and I actually wrote and slightly exceeded my secret target. I was oh so tempted to get up and do a bazillion other things. Organize my socks, look for some stuff, straighten the bed. But I didn't. I wrote words. One after the other and kept going and after spending two days planning what I would be doing with the scene I was working on, darned if something else entirely didn't happen. I think it's cool, but the best part now is that if it turns out not to be, I have words that can be fixed.
I think I spent too much time at
Miss Snark's Crap-o-Meter because even though I mostly skimmed the stuff, every time the Great Snark pointed out some failing, I immediately saw that failing in my own writing. and I think it's been sneakily paralyzing me from pulling out all the stops these last couple of weeks. Cuz, like, what if I overwrite? Or babble? Or start too soon and have only set up? Or what if it's just plain stupid? Folks, this is writer's neurosis in full swing. It's ugly. Get out of the way. I think I'm over it because, well, I have to be since I have a book that has to be finished.
In other news (psych!) It's not other news, it's still about writing -- I'm making a significant change in the nature of hero. Like he was one thing in the synopsis and now he's going to be another. If it works it'll be way cool. Unless it's not.
Urk.
Anyhoo, it's late, I need to make sure I keep getting enough sleep, which too often lately, I haven't been. I have my RITA books to read and sometime I have to read them. Urk again. ANOTHER delay.
Labels: Writting. freaking writing
