I have deemed this draft of the novel done. I need to let it sit now for a week or two before looking at it with fresh eyes and seeing what the hell I have actually written.
Which leaves me without the structure that was so vital for this last month of prolific writing productivity. So [...]
Archive for September, 2006
Needed: a new structure
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2006 | 17 Comments »
Day twenty-eight
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Word count: 52,327
Quote:Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.- from “Wild Mind”
Not much of a difference in word count between today and yesterday. A little less than 200 words but I’m amazed I got that much in considering I had [...]
Day twenty-seven
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Word count: 52,138
Quote: Follow what you love and it will take you where you need to go.- from a symposium on writing an Zen
I think that maybe I have completed this first draft. It’s far from done and there is so much to flesh out in the middle but a first line – perhap [...]
Day Twenty-Six
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Word count: 50,142
Writing is a way to connect with our own minds, to discover what we really think, see, and feel, rather than what we think we should think, see, and feel.-from “Long Quiet Highway”
Yes- that is not a typo up there- I did pass the 50,00 word mark today. Three days early. But [...]
Day Twenty-Five
Posted in Uncategorized on September 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Word count: 48,438
Quote:Writing is a great journey. It is a path with the possibility of making us free. And it can do all of this while you sit at a desk.- from “Wild Mind”
New scenes keep popping into my head and I frantically type them in, adding more and more words to this novel, knowing [...]
Day Twenty-four
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Word count: 45,347
Quote:The reader wants to come along with you. Take her.- from Thunder and Lightning
That’s it…long day.
Day Twenty-Three
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Word count: 45,347
Quote: Our voice emerges when we’re jolted, loosened, connected to ourselves in a way that’s bigger than ourselves.- from “Thunder and Lightning”
I didn’t get a chance to sit down here at my computer until 7:00 tonight. Today we cleaned the house and tackled the basement which is also our art area. Then I [...]
Day Twenty-Two
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Word count: 44,266
Quote:Your mind has its own paths to travel. Just step out of its way.- from Long Quiet Highway
Just squeezed in over a thousand words today. I showed up but nothing magical happened. I probably won’t even use what I wrote today. It was all cheesey and trite. But at least I wrote it [...]
Day Twenty-One
Posted in Uncategorized on September 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Word count: 43, 254
Quote:The more deeply we can allow ourselves to sink into the darkness of our own selves, the more we can settle into the mind of being a writer.- from “Long Quiet Highway”
As I close in on the final 10,00 words of this draft I am frantically fitting in scenes of conflict and [...]
Day Twenty
Posted in Uncategorized on September 20, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Word count: 41,093
Quote:Writing is the willingness to see.- from “Long Quiet Highway”
I just printed out the pages I have so far (130), three-hole punched them and put them in a binder along with all the scrap papers with my precious notes. I can see the end in sight and know that I will need to [...]
