Though not in the sand.
THE DAY
Wow, it’s been DAYS since I last wrote here. What, about six days? That feels like forever. I guess I’ve just been focusing on keeping my head down and working. There were a couple days when I didn’t have much time for work–Saturday, I think, because we were invited over to a friend’s place and I futzed for hours that morning, trying to get something going–and one where I didn’t feel all that well (s/p a medical thing). Otherwise, I’ve pretty much just been writing every day and not really paying attention to anything else. Fretting over the yard or a privacy fence or whatever . . . it’s just a waste of energy. Nothing will be done any faster if I worry about it, and no one will respond more quickly (if at all) if I’m on the phone more often.
Or maybe I’ve reached critical mass where I just don’t care all that much about extraneous garbage. Right now, I have to write. I have to get a book out. Screw everything else.
To that end, I’ve hammering and hammering and hammering on niggling plot points. The husband is trying to be helpful, but when he asks if I’m working from outline, I evade or just say no. I had an outline; it didn’t work; I don’t have to the patience to try one again, not now. Just write and then loop back and write again and loop back . . . you know, that whole writing into the dark thing. I still don’t think it’s more efficient, especially when I overwrite to explain something to myself and then cut it all out the next day or just retain snippets. But whatever. It’s what I’m doing now.
WRITING OUT LOUD
Stay Dead (started 5/05; Days 1-4, false start)
Day 1: 1000 Day 23-26: 9450
Day 2: 1200 Day 27: (novella) 2000
Day 3: 1800 Day 28: 2500
Day 4: 1350 Day 29-32: 8850
Day 5: 1000 Day 33: 3400
Day 6: 2000 LONDON HIATUS (13 days)
Day 7-10: ~4500 Day 34: 3000
Day 11-12: ~5000 Day 35-39: 9,800
Day 13: 1600
Day 14: 2300
Day 15-17: 4450
Day 18-19: 4500
Day 20-22: 5220
Blog Post: 700
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What I’m Watching:
Back to Dr. Who. Finished Season 5, started Season 6. It’s starting to grow on me like a fungus. The show has its immensely lame and silly moments, but I do like Matt Smith as the Doctor, so I’m willing to stick with it for him. (He’s also going to be in an upcoming movie, Patient Zero, that I’ll certainly see.) I had this discussion today with a FB friend about the series in general. I’m not such a fan of the whole Doctor changing every few years bit. I tend to get attached to people more than the actual overarching story. (Which is why DS9 and Enterprise never did anything for me; I didn’t care that they were Star Trek. What I cared about were the characters. If I could find one to like or an interaction I liked, I’d stick with it. I almost ditched TNG and pretty much had stopped watching it until I just happened to flip to it one evening when they just happened to do Part I of The Best of Both Worlds. Then, all of a sudden, I had people I cared about and I watched until it got silly and lame again, somewhere around Season 6. That’s when it seemed to turn into Peyton Place. Personally, I didn’t get the whole Worf-Troi thing, and I never much cared for her as a character. So that drama did nothing for me.)
Anyway, the Who story…I don’t know if I much care about that. I’m willing to follow this Doctor for now, but whether that will translate into an attachment to other Doctors or different Companions . . . who knows?
Also finished out Humans (I might have posted on that already) and just found out that The Last Ship, one of my summer faves, is back on. Got to catch up in between Whos.
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What I’m Reading:
I was reading The Shining Girls, and I guess I still am but got sidetracked on a pretty interesting book about leadership and mental illness (A First-Rate Madness). One nice thing about a vacation: you do get in more reading. Which I really ought to do more of as a regular habit. It’s how writers get ideas.
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What I’m Listening to:
I have been bad.
