My Progress Journal

Sunday, 06-15-2008

Alrighty then. I originally created this page back before blogs became popular. Probably wouldn't have made any difference because I probably still wouldn't have posted regularly. I'm updating today only because I came across this page as I was scoping out my site for badly out of date pages. I found one of many.

The thing is, I've just come off a 2 - 2 1/2 year hiatus from writing (fiction), after which I've reaffirmed my desire to write, submit, and publish. For a while there, I actually felt like I might not get the love back. I've been writing for so many years. (I starting imagining myself as a writer back when I was 15 years old.) It occurred to me one day that as an adult I had never considered "being" anything else. Why?

The day I asked that question, my friends, is the day I decided I needed a little perspective.

The timing couldn't have been better, since my husband and I had just starting building a house. It wasn't hard to put off writing for the next year and a half as I painted, installed hardwood, put down tile, got carpal tunnel/tendonitis from said painting and hardwood, and learned that not writing didn't end my world.

All that changed a few months ago, when I decided I wanted to finish the book I'd left dangling with only a few unfinished chapters to go. And that's what I'm working on now.

I have several unfinished scenes (about 5,000 words worth) and, unfortunately for me, revisions where I try to make the bad stuff sound like the good stuff and the good stuff to make sense.

Thursday, 07-15-2004

Work's been rough this week, and I haven't made much forward progress on my manuscript. Last week, I lost to an ear infection that lasted nearly 8 days. I know I've heard people talk about how they write through sickness, fatigue, etc, but I'm sure not one of them. I was miserable, and I didn't cope well. (Hubby can vouch for me on that!)

What I have done is work through a problem with my heroine that I hadn't been able to pin down. (I knew it was there, but I didn't have a clue what it was.) :-)

I also have a plan, and a personal deadline, and I plan to have the book finished by this time next month. I'd ask for you to wish me luck, but I don't think luck is going to have anything to do with it if I succeed (or fail)!

Sunday, 07-04-2004

It's 4:14 PM here and storms are expected tonight. The only reason I say that is because I write better on rainy days, although I have no idea why.

Since I haven't given any kind of update lately (and have deleted all previous entries in this journal), I'm going to mention that the work in progress I have going right now is something for which I have received a request for a full. So, meeting my deadline is important to me. As of today, the manuscript is 56.25% complete.