Yesterday I was supposed to spend the day with a close friend but at the last minute the plans were cancelled. Given that I had gone to a concert Friday night and didn't get any writing done, a part of me was almost excited to spend the day in front of my computer. It turned out to be the most productive day I've had so far.
Just over 4,400 words written yesterday before I went to bed at 2am! It felt amazing. I finished chapter 2 and nearly all of chapter 3, leaving myself very little to finish it off today. This evening I decided to spend some time editing. After changing from third person to first person midway through chapter 2, I left myself a lot of work to do editing chapter 1 to switch it over. But it's done now and I've been working slowly on chapter 2. It's changed over to first person now but it's still got issues. I was looking too far ahead, excited for my two main characters to meet for the first time, and so there are a few gaps in chapter 2 I'm having to patch. It's led me to a new realization...
Writing is fun. It's work, but it's fun work. Editing, not so much. It's just work.
And with that, I'm off to spend the rest of my night in the messy world of editing.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Number One
So this will officially be my first post. Makes sense to start a blog at the beginning of a journey like this, although the journey actually began years ago with the idea...
Writing is fun, sharing that writing is a scary concept and I'm nowhere near at the point that I'm about to do it yet. Hopefully, this blog and the time it takes me to write my story, the one I hope will be a book someday, will help me find that courage.
So, this is my online journal. It will show my journey to the world. Triumphs and failures laid out on the table.
Today... well, today is still TBD but yesterday was a triumph. The first day I set an official writing goal for myself and I surpassed it. Almost doubled it, actually. But so far today has been struggle. I was attempting to writing this piece (I'll refer to it as MC for future reference) in third person because I know in later stories I hope to have more than just one POV. It's not working out so well for me. I relate better to characters when I write in first person, just as I do when I read.
So, I'm giving in. At least for now, MC will be first person in the POV of my female protagonist.
And in looking at the journal post, I see that I use the word "so" far too much at the start of paragraphs...
So, I'll be doing so research for a new word to use in place of "so."
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
Writing is fun, sharing that writing is a scary concept and I'm nowhere near at the point that I'm about to do it yet. Hopefully, this blog and the time it takes me to write my story, the one I hope will be a book someday, will help me find that courage.
So, this is my online journal. It will show my journey to the world. Triumphs and failures laid out on the table.
Today... well, today is still TBD but yesterday was a triumph. The first day I set an official writing goal for myself and I surpassed it. Almost doubled it, actually. But so far today has been struggle. I was attempting to writing this piece (I'll refer to it as MC for future reference) in third person because I know in later stories I hope to have more than just one POV. It's not working out so well for me. I relate better to characters when I write in first person, just as I do when I read.
So, I'm giving in. At least for now, MC will be first person in the POV of my female protagonist.
And in looking at the journal post, I see that I use the word "so" far too much at the start of paragraphs...
So, I'll be doing so research for a new word to use in place of "so."
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
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