Being aware

[desperance]

It is International Cephalopod Awareness Day. I just needed you to know that.

In other awarenesses, I am aware that it is two and a half weeks since I last wrote anything in this novel of mine. That was not the gameplan, and I am feeling very behindhand. Never mind that my editor is cool and laid-back about delivery and such; I am not. ("Chaz, it's ready when you're ready," he says. Aaaargh!)

What with that timefall and the length & increasing complexity of the thing, I did nearly persuade myself that I really needed to read it through before I picked it up again. But I have been here before, I know that one, it's a snare and a delusion: just another way to practise avoidance and work myself into a proper state of worry, rather than the vague anxiety I have at present. Knowing so little about it, I can only be vaguely anxious; it's close knowledge of the text that induces real worry, and I won't have that until I read it.

So no, I shan't read it. Not yet. Not till I get to the end. I seem to have got bogged down in the middle of a fight scene, which is fairly typically perverse. Action's where it's at, apparently, but there's really nothing more boring than a fight scene. He hits him, and then he hits him, and then he hits him, and then...

I'm not much for car chases either, to be honest. Or gunfights in okay corrals.

Never mind, it has to be done. Let's see, where are we? Oh, yes. He hits him...

Comments

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

It's actually comforting to find that you are behind on your writing. I haven't written in about two weeks. Vacation and embarassment will do that. Ah well, tomorrow it's back to the grind stone.

[(Anonymous)]

I wrote nada, zilch, nothing between July and September but then sat at the keyboard and tapped out 1500 words per day. Rest is good :) (plus it helps the old RSI).

Slim
www.slimpalmer.com

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Skiving out of the Ni90 postings seems to be catching *g*

I am bogged down on a fight scene, too. So I'm skipping it and going on to... what happens after the fight.

I'll fill it in later; I can only do fights a few words at a time. I'm so limp it's not true.

[martyn44.livejournal.com]

I suddenly didn't want to write about the characters I had been exploring. I sat staring at the screen and nothing came.

How to get my 750 words for the day?

Write about the bad guy. The slithery, oleaginous, murderous, self justificatory bad guy. I don't know why, but I've never actually really explored an antagonist before, always concentrating on the protagonist(s) Hmm. Think I may have stumbled on something here.