Actually doing actual writing
You guys, finally posting that new chapter has me so jazzed. I cannot even begin to tell you. Not many things in life make me as happy as writing does. I can't believe it took me 18 months to write a single chapter, and that I've only added three to ACOC since Oct 2010, when I managed to write more than 30 chapters between April and October of that year. I can do this. I *know* I can do this. It's fun, even when it makes me want to bang my head against the wall.
I'm a perfectionist, that's my problem. When I write something, everything has to be phrased just right. I have to know where everyone is standing, what they're doing with their hands, what they are wearing, what kind of weather they're having, even if none of that stuff ever makes it onto the page. I spent an embarrassing amount of time today on this site looking up full moons, lunar apogees and perigrees, and checking sunrise times for Scotland in 1972. Because I need to know what time and for how many hours the full moon is in the sky on what day in November, and how close the moon is to the Earth.
Yeah, that's why nothing ever gets written. :p
I'm up to almost 1500 words on Ch 15, by the way, and I plan to go offline and spend the weekend writing. Wish me luck.
I'm a perfectionist, that's my problem. When I write something, everything has to be phrased just right. I have to know where everyone is standing, what they're doing with their hands, what they are wearing, what kind of weather they're having, even if none of that stuff ever makes it onto the page. I spent an embarrassing amount of time today on this site looking up full moons, lunar apogees and perigrees, and checking sunrise times for Scotland in 1972. Because I need to know what time and for how many hours the full moon is in the sky on what day in November, and how close the moon is to the Earth.
Yeah, that's why nothing ever gets written. :p
I'm up to almost 1500 words on Ch 15, by the way, and I plan to go offline and spend the weekend writing. Wish me luck.