I'm writing again. And I don't just mean here on my blog. :)
I mentioned in a previous post that I've been struggling with my writing lately and just wasn't motivated to get anything done. Well, I've moved past that finally and have been writing consistently for a couple of weeks now. It makes me really happy to be writing again.
What have I been writing? Well I finally finished a second draft of Alana (the one I've been working on forever). It is officially in the hands of a couple of critiquers, getting torn to shreds again. It took me a while to get it done (see unmotivated above), but now that I've completed the draft I'm happy. I feel like I'm making progress again.
Now that the second draft is finished, I'm spending the next month to two months focusing on churning out a full first draft of First Sight. I completed scene summaries a while ago, but put working on it on hold until I got Alana done. Now that she is, I'm finally getting back to FS.
Working on a completely new story is a bit nerve-wracking for me. I'm super worried that I'm going to hate how this book turns out. Or that there won't be enough conflict. Or that the story just stinks in general. But I really want to finish it because I really need to finish something new. Plus, I really do like the story idea, and now that I know how each scene is supposed to work, I feel like I know where this is going. At least the first draft. Of course, I may wind up having to completely rewrite it later, but my goal is to get every scene fully written. And I have a plan to do just that.
My plan is this: write at least one scene a day. Pretty simple, right? But so far, it's working great. I've typed up five scenes (I started working last week) so far. Technically I already wrote those scenes, but I wrote them by hand, in a notebook, between projects at my day job. So right now I'm basically typing up what I've already written. And I'm still writing at work, so maybe I'll keep ahead of myself. (Okay probably not, since I only write for five minutes at a time and I only get about two to three of these mini-sessions in per day, but a girl can dream.)
Another part of my plan is to try and post on here how the writing is going. It worked really well when I did BIAM, so I figure, why not try it again. I'm trying to get more focused in this blog thing, especially after reading a couple books about developing an author platform.
So yeah. Writing is going well. Life is interesting. Overall, I'm good.
I'll post stats on First Sight progress another day, since I don't have them in front of me at the moment.
