I didn’t write today and probably won’t tomorrow. You gotta give yourself a few off days a week. Sadly, given the nature of the coming Sunday, I may not write then either. I will make every effort to get one hour though. I need to keep the momentum going. I am proud of myself for turning the corner/page and getting going on this new novella. I have a lot of good energy surrounding the work, but it is taking time to fall into the minds of the characters and understand the situation unfolding between them. All story is situational. All story is ultimately about the choices made through interactions with some opposing force. Generally it is an outside antagonist, but it can take many other forms. In the case of this story it is an outside antagonist but it is also a character at odds with himself and his desires. He has to overcome this idea of who he should and should have been in order to realize what it is that he is becoming. I love that construct. Often I think my own life is built around this idea. Writing comes from the self in some fashion always.
Some Thoughts:
- Short ‘upper post’ leading to a few of these needing to be tagged on. 200 words indicates I am moving much faster than the numbers I said I put out, but the fact is it is way too hard to remain this constant speed of 30+ WPM without slowing to a crawl at some point. My brain log jams. The outside world interferes. Shit happens.
- Things are happening here in N.O. We are about to attend a Krewe Carvnival–the Krewe of Cleopatra. It will be my first such parade, and I am geeked to experience something new to me.
- Speaking of the term Krewe… That’s a dope term. Why didn’t New Orleans name their Basketball team the N.O. Krewe instead of the Pelicans?