Get Your Fire Back In You
Dumped out 3.5K, both in revisions and a new scene, yesterday. It feels good to have, as Ellen Foster would say, my fire back in me.
I’ve been dealing with so much personal stuff that some days it’s all I can do to open up a file and look at the words, read a couple scenes, and tweak. There have been some 200-word days, which is about as fun as opening another hole in my head and dousing it with napalm. slogging through is a matter of sheer bloodymindedness. Some days I doubt even my stubbornness is equal to the task.
Today is another new scene, shoehorned in. The book is gaining new complexity, which always happens in the first draft after the editor sees it. It’s fun to dig a little deeper, show a little more, lift the curtain on this new world.
See you on the other side.
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September 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I’m glad you have your fire back in you. I’m hoping the peer review I have tomorrow will put some fire back in me. I’ve been busy teaching my first grade daughter how to read and spell. It’s been taking up so much of my time that I’ve had a lot of 200 word days and some 0 word days, since the school year started. I need to get back on my morning schedule so I have the time to put into it. It’s reassuring to know that even the professionals go through cycles like this. Thanks for sharing and get back to writing.
September 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hang in there, Lili. Sip on a favorite pleasure and show that sucker who’s boss, word by word.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
where ever you found some fire, nurture it and bank it. I lost mine a while ago and haven’t found it again.. I sympathise greatly with your delemia. I have just finished “To Hell and Back” maybe once I finish processing I’ll feel differently. It was a seriousely emotional ladden book for me. I have to say I enjoyed the series greatly and you have managed to pack a lot of emotion into the series. Thank you and may the fire soon burn out of control