Yeah. So much for that epiphany. Worked out well for the first week or so, but the more time I spent working on my book proposal, the more time I found myself hearing snippets of dialogue and getting flashes of characters from (one of) the fiction pieces I started this summer.
In order to appease whichever muse decided to play head games with me, I grabbed a pen on Saturday morning, started writing the second draft of the blessed story and by Saturday night found myself twenty pages (and three empty fountain pen cartridges) deep in fiction I’d given up.
Again.
Anyone else have this problem? When you make up your mind to stop writing on something, whether it’s brochure copy or a historical family saga set over three centuries, then start working on something else, does the original start working for you? Or am I losing my marbles? I haven’t been able to think of anything else but this fiction story now–although I managed to pump out a good, bare-bones rough draft of an article that’s due on Friday. I’m itching to write. I even brought my fiction notebook to school with me–something I rarely(if ever) do anymore.
Maybe that’s the secret to writing: ignore what you want to write in order to write what you have to write and what you want will come find you.
That’s enough for today—I have an exciting fiction story to get home to.
Oh, yeah. One more thing.
And the other thing I forgot to mention was that I had to hack up $5 for my serious-writers group because, during the past three weeks, I was unable to cough up 5 pages of fiction.
Insane, isn’t it?
Well, the goals have changed. I’m on my way to post now. And they are…(drumroll, please):
*finish Chapter 2 in the fiction WIP
*submit the ELL article to KDP by the 10th
*finish rough draft of introduction to nonfiction WIP
So help me, if that muse starts buzzing around my head again…
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i get that sometimes too, you’re not going mad!!!
Whew! So glad…LOL! Maybe we should make a club!
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