So the progress continues. Unless I can materialize ten pages of brilliance by Sunday, I likely will not meet my original deadline, but there was a big setback, and a vacation, so a few weeks over should still be better than the prior trajectory of finishing it never. As a bonus, while in San Diego I discovered a dusty album of carribean inspired tunes to help with all things that are made better by talk of cocounut water and rum. (that is a large list). Today I strive to finish entering the pages I wrote at LIB and to polish 19. Wish mw luck Mr. Belafonte.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Anxious
So today, I feel myself pulled in many directions. I frankly don't want to be where I am, but am stuck for the next few hours. The good news is that I think that I will get Jen to drive tonight and resign myself to getting some work done in the the backseat. (writing that is) I am also feeling a bit conflicted about the direction I want to write. Yesterday I sat down to finish the last of chapter 19, for light peppered night, and the only thing I came up with was the start of an outline and character description for the next novel. I am excited for this second novel, as I feel like it may be a lot funnier, but also a big subject and social commentary. I still have to finish number one though.
It somewhat scares me, to think that these characters will simply have no future after I stop writing it, and I can see that influencing this intense procrastination that prevents me from finishing it. Life Mr. Green put it in The Fault Is in Our Stars, when asked what happened to the tulip man and the mother after the end of the book, his answer was an emphatic "NOTHING." They cease to exist.
I have a certain stewardship of these people I have written, the universe that I created, and that was a large part in the reasoning behind my rescinding an entire chapter. In 18, I did something that the entire book was driven toward, and once done, found that it was horrible, and just too tragic. So I took it back. Although I like the new chapter, I am concerned that I may not be able to make to book memorable without the crash boom bang!
We shall see, but I think the next chapter shall have music.
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