idle hands, work thereof
Aug. 29th, 2009 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI have a confession to make.
I've been writing again. Re-writing, actually, since I got so stuck at 30K with the ongoing project way back in January, and have had neither time nor brain enough to examine why until the last month. This will be the third year of me working on the same book. Possibly the fourth: my records don't go back that far.
Each iteration of the first 20-30K words has gotten closer to the shape of the story I want to tell. I'm hopeful that this time, since I finally know who my antagonist is and what she's doing in the story, that this might be the iteration that ends up closer to a complete draft: I've spent the last two-three weeks patching old material in with new for the first 10K, and although it has far too many flaws, I'm still excited about it.
Three, four years on, I'm still excited about working on this. So I guess I'm stuck working on it until the excitement dies the final death, or I finish.
I'd really like to finish. But I have this thesis thing this year, so I'm not going to put myself under any pressure. What comes, comes.
I've been writing again. Re-writing, actually, since I got so stuck at 30K with the ongoing project way back in January, and have had neither time nor brain enough to examine why until the last month. This will be the third year of me working on the same book. Possibly the fourth: my records don't go back that far.
Each iteration of the first 20-30K words has gotten closer to the shape of the story I want to tell. I'm hopeful that this time, since I finally know who my antagonist is and what she's doing in the story, that this might be the iteration that ends up closer to a complete draft: I've spent the last two-three weeks patching old material in with new for the first 10K, and although it has far too many flaws, I'm still excited about it.
Three, four years on, I'm still excited about working on this. So I guess I'm stuck working on it until the excitement dies the final death, or I finish.
I'd really like to finish. But I have this thesis thing this year, so I'm not going to put myself under any pressure. What comes, comes.
