Tried to get back into the bloganovella today but I don’t have it in me. Baby steps, y’know? I feel like I made some really strong progress on the contracted work today and that is enough… for today. Tomorrow I expect to be back at the bloganovella. I’m interested in seeing where it goes with the character and the person he’s out there to protect. I don’t know the main character that well yet. I meet him again every time I write him and we are starting to become friends little by little. All characters come from somewhere. Whether you believe they are shades of yourself or shades of other people you’ve met along the path, or that writing is a way of seeing into worlds or creating new realities, or whatever you believe, it takes time to know a person. I don’t know the main character well enough yet. Heck, it took me a minute to remember that his name is Tojiro, and I still don’t see his face when I write him.
Some Thoughts:
- Well, that was fast. Still 5 on the clock and I frankly have nothing left to say.
- It still amazes me how variable my writing speed can be based on how close to the surface the material is. I can knock out words as fast as I can type them if it is all right there on the surface. The deeper I dig, the slower I get. I can put down 500 words or 50 depending on the night. Tonight we are in the 170-200 range at a guess.