My specific measurable goal for last week has been achieved. I even achieved it early, thanks to the help of good ol’ mother nature and the predicted high of 5 on Thursday. (It got up to 7, but who’s counting!?) My boss sent us home early to be warm so I had some extra writing time. On top of that my D&D session, which happens on Thursday nights, was canceled because people would rather not brave the cold to come to our house. Lots of extra time!
With that extra time, I was also able to work on the next folder. This folder is, as I said last week, the first section where I started having trouble with the story. I knew what I wanted to happen, and thus forced my characters into the neat little square holes I had planned. They refused to fit.
At some point two or three weeks ago, I rewrote, basically every scene in that folder, disregarding the plan that I had. I was fairly sure that what I had rewritten was also trash, but I left it while I tried to sort out my writing process. When I went through and reread it, I was actually quite happy with what was there, which is encouraging.
One thing that I have learned this week, is that the base of my revision pyramid seems to be both character and plot. Because I do so much rewriting moving from draft 0 to the rough draft, that I can’t focus on just character or plot, because I’m writing so many scenes from scratch.
Specific measurable result for this coming week is to finish Tabitha’s character arch in the next three folders.
Also, if you haven’t seen it, I have set up a “Page” on facebook, separate from my personal page. This is where I’m going to be focusing my writing life, separate from all of the normal personal life stuff. I would love it if you would pop by and ‘like’ it.
