Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Writing Again

Sort of. Mostly for the past month, I haven't written much longer than a blog post. Ack. It hasn't really been in me. I know, I know... a woman of character writes whether or not she's feeling it. Need we mention, once again, that I am not a woman of character?

But school starts tomorrow, so I got up earlier than usual, made a delicious German Pancake breakfast, and got out a previously-abandoned draft of a novel to peck at. I read it over while breakfast baked, and when it was time to wake the Kids (for the trial run of getting out of bed before nine) I didn't want to leave it.

Wow. Is that fun? Um, yes.

It is totally different for me. A little magical (just a little) and a little spiritual (but not religious*) and fairly formal. Maybe mystical, at least in its first draft. Not funny. Not sarcastic. I wonder, a little, if I can pull it off. But it's also only beginning. I think the draft has 8K words. So there is room to change. And it will, because that's what drafts do. At least they do when I pull them up and read them and write in them.

So tomorrow, when life changes once again, and I have a schedule, I'll pull it out again. I'll write a scene or two or whatever it takes to reach a thousand words. Then in a week or so, it will be twice as long as it is now, and we'll take another look. And then in a month, or two, or three, it will be a messy, dirty, finished first draft. And then it starts all over again.

*Not that there is anything wrong with religious. I am a believer. It's just not what I write.

4 comments:

  1. Your goal is inspiring, I need to get to work too. Have a schedule.

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  2. I feel you and now I envy you. I have a third novel that wants to get started but I can't quite find the right hook on which to hang the plot so I hide in revisions instead. Sigh.

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  3. I'm very glad you found something that sparkles for you. It makes it fun again. I'm just struggling to give myself permisison to write badly to finish the stupid thing.

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  4. Reading this makes me want to write again. And hey, look, I have the time! Wheeee!

    Yay for feeling inspired and excited again!

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