Writing and keeping up with myself
In June I outlined, and point by point plotted the first book in my TDP series. Then over the course of nine days, I wrote the entire 90k little thing.
This is no mean feat. I feel that book is probably the best book I've ever written and the best one so far to actually have a shot (once it's cleaned up and tweaked) to get published. The whole story line is a GOOD story line - for the entire series.
So I outlined and plotted my little butt off again at the end of June/beginning of July. But at the end of June I had some very bad news. And I started writing TDP 2 on July 4th anyway - behind schedule, but I pressured myself to write because well... I was behind schedule.
I'm now almost 60% of the way through the 2nd book. It's not as good as the first. It's not as cohesive. But the bare bones of the story are good - except at the moment I'm finding myself pushing just that bit too hard - I'm stressing to write it and constantly scared I'm not going to do it justice. The first 45% of the book was so easy to write, but this next section has almost been torture.
So I'm going to try and take this slow and not get frustrated with myself. I think I'll try and squeeze in a few short stories and aim to have the remaining 35k written by somewhere near the end of this month.
Trying to power write when I'm using it to get over and ignore some bad shit in my life isn't proving to be the good solution I thought it would. So I'll finish writing it and doing it justice after I let my head clear just a tad more.
Slow and sure for the moment. Or, at least, slower ^_~
♥
This is no mean feat. I feel that book is probably the best book I've ever written and the best one so far to actually have a shot (once it's cleaned up and tweaked) to get published. The whole story line is a GOOD story line - for the entire series.
So I outlined and plotted my little butt off again at the end of June/beginning of July. But at the end of June I had some very bad news. And I started writing TDP 2 on July 4th anyway - behind schedule, but I pressured myself to write because well... I was behind schedule.
I'm now almost 60% of the way through the 2nd book. It's not as good as the first. It's not as cohesive. But the bare bones of the story are good - except at the moment I'm finding myself pushing just that bit too hard - I'm stressing to write it and constantly scared I'm not going to do it justice. The first 45% of the book was so easy to write, but this next section has almost been torture.
So I'm going to try and take this slow and not get frustrated with myself. I think I'll try and squeeze in a few short stories and aim to have the remaining 35k written by somewhere near the end of this month.
Trying to power write when I'm using it to get over and ignore some bad shit in my life isn't proving to be the good solution I thought it would. So I'll finish writing it and doing it justice after I let my head clear just a tad more.
Slow and sure for the moment. Or, at least, slower ^_~
♥