Productive: I am it

[naomi_jay]

I've been off work since Wednesday afternoon and have written roughly 8k on SILVER KISS. It's not quite as much as I hoped, but it's still a lot, and I did have the day off yesterday to put the new bed together. Not that it took me a day to do it, but there was other stuff going on, like staying at Pip's parents on Friday night and watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Important stuff. Can't say I wildly adored the film; it reminded me a bit of Forest Gump - just stuff happening to a guy, but with a gimmick!

Anyway, it's back to work tomorrow so I'm hoping to knock out a few more thousand words tonight. I'm in the end zone of the novel, I think, racing towards the thrilling conclusion and putting Ayla and Shannon through the wringer in the process. SILVER KISS has turned into more of a relationshippy novel than I thought it would, lots of conflict between the pair of them in addition to the external conflicts. I've written myself into a couple of corners in terms of their relationship, and I'm not sure how I'm going to resolve it just yet. I'm sure the solution will present itself as I write, and I like not knowing exactly what's going to happen. That's part of the reason, I think, that I can never plan my books out in advance. If I plot it too concisely beforehand, I lose interest in writing it. Does anyone else find that?

So, here's the progress metre. Behold!

54285 / 60000 words. 90% done!

Comments

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get that problem too. I work well off of dot points to remind me of where I want to go, but I find that if I actually write stuff out in detail, my brain switches off all "well, we've already done it. Why do you want me to go back to it? We can work on something else now!" and this is why I have so much trouble typing up my notes. I have oodles of notes, but as far as my brain is concerned, we're done with that part of the story. It's annoying, because the blinky cursor in my word doc begs to differ.

And yet, I can still have epic conversations about random stuff and then go back to those for reference. I don't get it. Brains are mysterious things.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's me exactly. I have Point A and Point B in mind, but how I get from one to the other is a mystery and I like it that way.

[yolandasfetsos.livejournal.com]

Yay, that word metre's looking great. Almost there, aren't you? :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I think so! I do keep thinking of more plot to put in though...

[etaknosnhoj.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean about not being able to plot: my brain figures it's already done and wants to move on. Can't even write down bullet-points, I just have to remember it. Which when you have a memory as meanderingly confuzzled as mine, isn't easy.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Same here. I keep it all in my head, which might be why it takes me so long to ever finish anything.