It's Wednesday, yay! So excited was I about doing another WIP Wednesday today that I dreamt about it this morning right before waking up, between all my alarms. Yes, I usually pre-live parts of my day in last-minute dreams.
Kate posted her second update, and here's mine.
I'm not wrestling with word count, thank goodness! My word count stressing is normally reserved for November and NaNoWriMo. I'm not even counting chapters because, even though my novel is organized into chunks, I don't really consider those chapters. Though, they probably are, and I will probably make that distinction later.
Last night I was on page 30 of approximately 180 double-spaced pages. I've upped my writing time to 15 minutes a day (baby steps), and it's going well. I have even been looking forward to revising each evening, as opposed to freaking out, dreading, and putting off for months at a time. Line editing has been enjoyable, but now I'm getting deeper into the story, and I'm coming up on scenes I haven't read in about 5 years, and feeling all the uncertainty and difficulties I felt when first writing those scenes so long ago. I'm remembering at the time, I had a gut feeling the story wasn't quite right in these places, but I didn't have time to fix them. Now, I do. Of course, I'm still as lost as I was back in college. I am glad for the instinctual feeling, though, that even if I don't know what to do yet, at least I know I can improve. Probably some major rewriting will take place. I guess I'm a bit scared of that--the tearing down. It's been so long since I've completely reworked a story. But, I think I can handle it.
Another great effect of writing every day is that my novel is staying with me even when it's not open on my computer, and I've been taking notes. This is one of my favorite parts about writing, when my brain keeps doing it even as I'm working on something else. To be chewing on characters and plot in the back of my mind makes me feel like a real writer!
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Ha - I have had those between the snooze button dreams before, although usually I dream that I'm late because I slept through my alarm.
That is great that your rewrites are going so well. I agree that the hardest part is when you have to do major rewrites, it sometimes feels like a really overwhelming job - I look forward to hearing how you eventually tackle that!
Hi- the above deleted comment is from me, I goofed.
I probably should stop worrying about word count and reserve that for nano. Good point. The baby steps in writing sounds like good advice. I'll be doing a major edit of my 2007 nano once I finish this first draft. I enjoyed reading your post and look forward to many more. I joined in this week and my post is up.
15 minutes! And you're *looking forward* to revising! Yay!
I love that feeling, when the story follows you around. Mm. I think it's really important because then the story is roiling and rolling around in the lovely thick mud of the subconscious and it comes up with the most amazing treasures!
Thanks for coming by the blog. I appreciated your comment!
Sounds like things are really coming along...keep it up. Rewrites always take me a LONG time to complete. A friend once told me that it was all worth it when you could read a page and say "Dang..I ACTUALLY wrote that...coool!" You know what - she was right :)
Keep up the good work.
Thanks, all, for the comments! I have continued to stick to my 15 minute goal every day this week, despite waiting till the last minute and wanting to go to bed.
Also, I'm thinking it would be more helpful if I didn't wait till the last minute, but I guess that is a goal for next week.
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