Work In Progress!
My WIP saw actual progress over the last two days. It’s Spring Break here for the kids and they were already crying they were bored by lunchtime yesterday. Today, I further taxed their powers of self-entertainment by taking them with me to get the tires on the van looked at. The guy told me, “I don’t usually say this to customers, but that’s a really dangerous tire to be driving on. Good thing you came in when you did.” Yeah, duly chastised and a thousand bucks poorer thanks to extended warranties, new shocks & struts and there better be some gold plating under there too! Noted. I’ll be back every 3-5 months to get them rotated and aligned now. Aye-aye.
Anyway, I managed to fill out my outline spreadsheet based on Dunne’s Emotional Structure and Vogler’s take on the Hero’s Journey, as well as a few other things I’ve tossed in by now. I finished Act I and Act II’s outline yesterday and finished up Act III today at the tire place. If they’d had a decent table to work on and I hadn’t had the kids, I might have been REALLY productive during the three hours we were there.
I also worked a bit brainstorming on names for characters and the like that I’ll need before I can really sit down and write this thing, but I’m so close that I’m starting to feel annoyed when I can’t take a chunk of time and devote to it and get it out of my system. This is a good thing. There’s a sense of urgency that I need to work on this and get the story told. I’d missed that feeling lately.
All I have to do now is strap myself into my chair and get writing! I’m sure I’ll become a regular feature in the RD chat room again. (Sorry Bria, no nifty anaolgies today. I’m too braindead from smelling the rubber in the showroom/waiting room and a FOXNEWS overload.)
Progress is good in whatever form it takes. I had to get a new battery recently. Aromatherapy room spray was needed when I got home to remove the rubber smell from the inside of my nose.
Congrats, Kaige! Keep it up!
I miss the independence of driving and of having a car, but I don’t miss the upkeep and gas expenses. Like anything, there be pros and cons… (I walk to work! I shop online! My friends take me places.)
Itchy to get down to work and can’t (for whatever reason)? That’s me, usually when I CAN’T work because I’m at my paying job, taking a shower, or splitting atoms. Puts me in a funk but good.
But when my butt’s in the chair and nothing’s stopping me? Pishaw. What be this mess?
That feeling, though. The utterly undeniable race of excitement that has you grinning over the keyboard? Magical. Hang on to it with all your ten toes.
Go, Kaige. Go, Kaige.
yeah, what Unhingey said. I wish I had that deadpan laughter down. Urgency is what gets you through that draft.
Good job!!! So…uhm, do you have a projected finish date?
Wow, rockin’ and rollin’ that WIP. I’d rather be flogged than make a visit to the tire store, I swear the men that work there are always lieing to me because they know they can.
Ummm… lessee… I got 654 words written yesterday. 0 so far for today. At this rate,… uhm…. yeah… I got nothin’. I’m thinking around the 40k mark for this one as well, we’ll see what happens along the way. I’m going to see how much I can get knocked out in a month or so, but I’m not going to kill myself either.
We’re likely going away this weekend for a spontaneous, get out of town and away from stress for the DH weekend, so next week will be back to a more normal routine for me.
Thanks for the encouragement and support, guys!