Getting my head back in the game
Love. Fall in love and stay in love.Write only what you love, and love what you write.
The key word is love.
You have to get up in the morning and write
something you love, something to live for.
-- Ray Bradbury
Page Count for Day: 8 pages - rough but good.
I love writing in Burke's head, he's such a snot. :-)
Although its been four months since my last post on here, I've been writing - and writing - and writing. I've actually done over 100 pages in the past few months, about 50 pages a month, which is twice what I was able to put out in last year's submissions. BUT...
I'm going to have to put out 25 pages a week for the next 12 to 14 weeks if I want to finish my 1st draft of Critical Past by mid-June. Can I do it? I've decided the litmus test will be if I can produce 100 pages between now and April 10th.
I am having a slow week this week because of reading, critiquing and grading 13 twenty-five page treatments from my undergrads. I think my eyeballs are going to come out of their sockets. I finally took a good chunk of today and just wrote -- 8 PAGES!!! Feels very good.
Hell, it always feels good to write. The story is so big and everytime I can get a piece of it out of my head and onto the page, I feel the pressure drop. I don't mean bad pressure, more of a metaphoric pressure. This story is so frigging big, so complex, and its really crowding my brain. Bits and pieces leak out on to scraps of paper but when I'm able to really move the plot forward and nurture the story outside of my head, then I happy.
But I think I'm particularly happy with this section because finally, after much buildup, I have my characters right where I want them: in Ancient Britain. I've got some great fish out of water stuff planned for all of them, especially poor Jon.
Plan for rest of week:
Thursday: 2 pages (more grading to do plus I really need to do some commenting on a contract book)
Friday: 8 pages
Saturday: 7 pages
That will give me 25 page allotment for the week - yes!
Ok - time to go play instructor...
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