Concentration

Can you tell what they are eating?  Lemons!

And I can’t get them to eat casseroles.  Go figure.

So, on my writing–concentration has been missing on these last three chapters that are in need of polishing.  It’s been frustrating.  I know where the story is to go.  But I couldn’t concentrate to do what needed to be done.  I needed to delete, revise, revamp, create.  There were some really cool word combos…some really bad ones.  But…none of it was happening.  So in a fit of desperation I just decided, there has to be something wrong with those chapters, really, really wrong.  Or I’d have started carving.

So I thought, I know where I need to go ultimately…maybe I should forget about what I have, start those chapters over, use a new pov, a new layout, a new scene…whatever…just something totally different.

So I did it.  I put lots of white space after the last ‘good’ chapter and the mess following.  Then stared at the page, closed my eyes, rejected several similar beginnings to what I already had, then finally got myself to think ‘new’ and whala!  The words, the scenes began unfolding like magic!  YAY!

I’m still not sure what was exactly wrong with what I had before…I just know that there was something as I couldn’t work on it.

I’m going into hiding and not coming out until the chapters are done.

Okay that’s not possible.  :-)  BUT I am going to write and write and write.

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Have a great day!

Cole