White Raven draft two progress

Today’s progress:

Project: White Raven draft two

New words: 2,735

Total words: 37,684

Goal: 100k

Writing:

First day back writing after a two-week break.  The verdict: brain isn’t quite settled back into a good creative track, but it’s better than any of my really bad writing days.  It’ll likely take me a few days to get back into the groove properly, and then hopefully I can start zooming through these edits.

I’m really wanting to start moving through this editing pass quickly.  I have some stuff that I need to go back and fix in earlier chapters (as always), but I need to get this draft finished before I can look at that properly.

I’m going to bemoan being an organic writer yet again.  I think I’m definitely going to have a go at outlining the next book, just to see how that works for me.  I love the process of exploration and discovery that’s inherent in organic writing, but sometimes it just feels like it takes so long.  Realistically, I know that’s not true and that there are plenty of writers who work far slower than I do, but it still frustrates me.

One of these days I might just accept that I have to work slower than I’m happy with and I’ll stop moaning about it.  Maybe

Real life:

Laundry.  Cleaned the house.

I’m back to sleeping crappily, it seems.  I managed a few decent nights while we were on holiday (mostly because my body was fighting a cold, I think) but now it’s back to sleeping for a few hours, awake for a few hours, rinse and repeat.  It’s frustrating, since when I’m awake, I’m not really awake enough to do anything.  Otherwise I’d get up and read or watch TV or, hell, write.  And I know that things are only going to get worse on that front.  Mreh.

Our neighbours got broken into this morning, too.  I was cleaning and heard a huge crash – looked outside and saw nothing, figured that someone had just dropped something.  But no, someone smashed through one of their windows.  I’d heard some vague scufflings (and Jilly had been really on edge), but dismissed it.  It sucks for them, but I’m just kind of glad that they didn’t come in here.  There’s not really much I could effectively do to fight someone off right now, yanno?

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.