Stumbling forward

[pjthompson]

After giving up writing for the 1,409th time I got over myself and started writing again. Then I got stalled because a plot thingie was not falling into place. Since I am getting perilously close to the climax of this novel, I couldn't really progress without the cooperative plot thingie. So I had to occupy myself with other things while the backbrain figured it out (I could come up with nothing via the frontbrain). My usually dependable backbrain was not cooperative. Instead of taking a few days, it took a few weeks. Just when I'd reached the point where I thought I'd have to lay aside the novel for awhile and concentrate on rewriting last year's novel (in fact, practically as soon as I said that to another writer), the backbrain came through for me. So I'm moving forward again. A bit of a crawl, but that's okay. It's forward. That's all that matters.

Oh, and I had to get real with myself. No way this thing is coming it at 100k.


Venus In Trasnit

96,250 / 110,000 (87.5%)

Comments

[darkspires.livejournal.com]

Good for you. It is great that you are moving forward again and when did you ever come in at 100K? Grins.

Hugs

[pjthompson]

Thanks, hon.

when did you ever come in at 100K? Grins.

Well, exactly. Who was I kidding besides myself?

[helios137.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an alchemical process. A little fermentation at work. :)

[pjthompson]

Oh, I very much think writing is an alchemical process. Sometimes turning lead to gold, sometimes quite the reverse. But always a journey of self-discovery.

[helios137.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense. Do you think your writing has had an affect on your spiritual life/path?

BTW, have you ever come across Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity"? It is a book that I have used with some small degree of success in the past.

[pjthompson]

Do you think your writing has had an affect on your spiritual life/path?

The two are so interrelated it's hard to say where one leaves off and the other begins, so I guess, yes.

BTW, have you ever come across Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity"?

Yes! And excellent book. It helped me crawl back out of a 4-5 year writers' block so it was fairly invaluable for me.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hooray for forwardosity, crawls and all...

[pjthompson]

Yes, it feels good.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Finally, the last person who thought this book would come in under 100k has given up. ;-)

But seriously, glad you've reversed course again. :-)

[pjthompson]

Finally, the last person who thought this book would come in under 100k has given up. ;-)

Ha! Well, one lives in hope...