It's Already February--Who Knew?

Wow, it's been ages since I've updated this. I have a good excuse though--I've been writing my fingers to the bone on my latest wip. I'm now about 10K from the end whereas not too long ago I wondered if it would be another abandoned project. I *always* finished what I started until recently when I abandoned two manuscripts at around the 150 page mark. I will get back to them though. Especially the one--I still keep getting ideas for it.

I'm considering an exercise from James Scott Bell's book called plot drills. You take six books in your genre, read them, and create scene cards for each and every scene. You then read these over and over and over while you assimilate plot and structure. It's a huge investment of time obviously. He thinks it's worth it--and he's selling and I'm not! Perhaps when I finish the current draft, I will set aside the time to do it.

Adding Words One-by-One

This whole 77 days of sweat thing has me going. I did a little noodling on my wip on my lunch hour AND I also dragged it out after dinner and spent an hour finishing a scene! I'm really pleased with myself. Now let's see how tonight goes...I hate starting a new scene. Until I can get that first sentence down I'm paralyzed. It's like starting the book all over again. I'm going to try to think about it during the day while doing other mundane things--maybe my subconscious will come up with that first line for me...