Hello all! Welcome back to my blog.
Bordering on December, and I’m taking these last days of November for a kind of a pause from fiction writing. I needed a brake.
It’s been a pretty intensive November, with NaNoWriMo (finished at 77 420 words), and doubling my daily word count for the current writing project, on top of everything else I (we) always have going on…
Obviously that, as soon as I took a brake, a big migraine made herself noticed. Four days later, I’m still reeling from some minor symptoms but I’m counting myself as being almost fully okay.
So, this week I have been rereading my NaNo project, slowly, and enjoying it as much as I can. And that’s the goal for the brake days. Nothing more and nothing less.
December will bring a lot more demands on my time so I’ve been thinking about what I want to focus on this month.
Back to the drawing board
I need to get back to the drawing board, again… like I’ve shared here before, on the post Another writing update on ‘The Shapeshifters’ and NaNoWriMo. And even if I feel that I’m stalling a bit (because I do feel that), I had been back to the plans and started working a few things out.
But getting back to the drawing board gave me a sense that I need to advance on the second, and maybe third, volumes of this story, at least in the main views of the whole project, before I am able to finish the first volume properly.
So, this is my number one goal for December: Get back to the drawing board and do more sketches of what I want to compose a bit further down the line (of life).
In September I wrote:
Usually I get a bit overwhelmed with changing rhythms. [And this is the understatement of the year!] But after a few days, I tend to focus on what I can do instead of what I should be doing, and get on with my creative life. And this summer wasn’t any different. – Back to September. Setting goals. Back to Writing.
This is truly a thing for me.
That’s why I usually prefer to do the minimum of transitions from one project phase to another, because I get overwhelmed with the thoughts of all that I wish I could put in, and do better, and work more on…
Sometimes, I forget to rest in between, just to try and avoid this syndrome.
So, my second goal for December is: Stick to the plan. Grab my planning tools and define unmovable deadlines and stick to them.
I already had plans… and plans for plans. It’s just a situation that I have to put them right in front of my eyes, just so I see them everyday.
And how, I wonder, will I manage this?
I’m getting a few ideas…
