Confessions

I have a confession to make: I didn’t get any actual writing done yesterday. I instead ended up editing the chapters I’ve already written – the latter half of Chapter Two and…pretty much the entirety of the third chapter. The events didn’t feel at all right – I rambled on and on about how a story should ‘flow’ – well, the way the events were playing out, it was definitely not how the story should work.

I hope to make up missing time today, have an epic session in which I plow through the rest of Chapter Four. I have to finish my editing of Three first, though – it took me longer than I thought to edit, I must have spent a good hour going through those two chapters, changing things here or there, tweaking them slightly. I admit, I have no idea where they’re going so it should be interesting to see. 

Procrastination hit me too, unfortunately another reason why I didn’t get the writing done like I thought I’d be able to – I waited until the late afternoon, and then discovered that plans I had previously thought cancelled were, in fact, un-cancelled, so…yeah. My own fault there. I’ll get through it, though. There will be lots of writing today, I swear.

I’ve also been thinking some about my NaNoWriMo project (yes, already, even though November is months away at this point.). I think I have something I’m going to try – it’s on my backlog for years now, kind of a superhero modern Earth type thing. I think that this year I should be able to actually complete NaNoWriMo this year, especially since once we get to that point I’ll have had months and months of writing every day. Pumping out the 1667 words a day will be no big deal – I’m getting to the point where I’m capable of doing that now in a single ‘main’ session. 

We will just see when we get there, I suppose. What else can I say here? I had something in mind…oh, I remember! I’ve been thinking about my writing process. I basically write the chapters one at a time, go back and re-read and make a few edits (occasionally rewrites, as I’m doing now. I’m pretty much re-writing the current batch of chapters one line at a time). But I am thinking that, once the draft is done, I should print off an entire copy of the draft, read through it and mark it up for a second round of revisions. I think I probably would edit better if I was working from a hard copy. But the problems are that’s kind of expensive and time consuming. And my desk is really small and cramped, which makes it difficult to do things other than sit on the computer and type and what-not. 

Lots of writing today, lots of editing – there’s still about four pages left for me to go through on the story. I’m pretty much out of things to say regarding how the writing is going, so I guess I’ll close this out with a short description.

The dim sky slowly lit up in the east, the sun barely above the horizon, looking down upon the ancient temple, a large square structure mounted on the top of a hill. Steep stairs, guarded on either side, by faceless angel statues ran up to the entrance – two enormous, heavy doors. Braziers stood unlit on either side, and the whole place had an aura of neglect to it – weeds sprouted from cracks in the stone. In some places, carvings were missing and broken. The doors were sealed shut, and the whole place looked sad as it crumbled slowly back into oblivion.