We’re back from our little family break.
I vowed that I wouldn’t think about my writing for the few days we were away, and I didn’t… well, not technically!
Yes, I did venture into my reader… yes, I did draft a couple of posts… yes, I did manage to take part in the challenges I like to participate in, a few days later, but I did it.
But I didn’t open my WIP.
I was tempted.
I guess the urge was there, having picked up a real momentum last week, but I didn’t want to rush the end.
Having spent so long getting it to this stage, I didn’t want to mess things up!
I’ve mentioned this before, but as a blogger, I am truly a pantser! And somewhat the same when writing 80,000-word stories so it would seem!
I tend to write posts about what comes into my mind at that time, and not think too much.
With my story, it was the same. I mean I had a skeleton idea when the WIP was born, eighteen years ago, but that was it.
I managed to write brief character profiles for a couple of the main protagonists as well, around fourteen years ago, but that was it.
Last summer, I stepped totally out of my comfort zone.
I actually planned the whole thing. From start to finish!
I created a storyboard and everything!
And that is how I write too. I can’t jump from chapter to chapter, write the middle first, then add a preceding scene before bouncing to the end, then back again.
I need to go from the beginning of where a story starts, and build upon it, to a suitable end.
I am but a mere couple of chapters away from finishing this epic first draft, and I decided to take advantage of a bit of free time today, once we arrived home.
And I wrote.
Just a few hundred words, but it was something quite key to the ending.
Until I had a mental block.
Things weren’t flowing.
So I stopped, intent on starting up again properly, tomorrow.
Then, sitting here, my mind started to turn… how about I move that bit to there, and add this bit here, to make that scene lead into this one…
And then I got it.
That feeling.
Look at me, thinking about storylines and flowing…
Dang, maybe I really am a writer, instead of just a blogger who waffles on!
Onwards and upwards Peeps!
Here’s hoping I can finish this first draft by the end of the week… Now that would really be epic!
