Good news! No, great news! I've finally received the
inspiration needed to overcome this writing dry spell I've found myself in the
past months (almost a year…), and it feels so good! Last post was all about how
boring my most recent story was turning out to be, so I took a break. A long
break. After a couple months and a few long talks with many of my family
members (Husband, Mom, Dad, sisters, Grandma - thank you!) I finally found the
inspiration I needed to get me started again! And boy, does it feel good to
write again. I am loving it.
I ended up having to change a lot of the story I had before,
fixing plot points, altering characters, and making it all much more interesting,
so I basically scrapped the 70+ pages of writing I had and started over. I hope
it turns out better than what I had before!
Having a baby to take care of 24/7 is also making it harder
to write, so I've come up with a way around it to make it easier. For me, in
order to write, I have to completely immerse myself in the story. I have to
know what has happened before, what will happen after, and what is happening
during the part of the story I'm writing. I need to know each of the
character's feelings, who is present, where they're going, who's going to be talking,
etc. So it's been hard for me to get in to the moment of the story I'm writing
when I have to stop to pick up my daughter, pull her away from the bookshelf, pick
up her toy she dropped, or put her to sleep, and then go back to my story and
completely lose my place. Needless to say, it's been difficult for me.
So I'm having to adapt how I write, and I changed my normal
ways to make it possible for me to get into my writing much more quickly. I
ended up writing an in-depth outline of the story. Now, I write outlines for
all my stories, but this was an in-depth, in-depth outline. As in, I have a
summary of the summary of the summary of each scene (literally), so I can get
into where I am quickly. And it has already helped! My outline ended up being
32, 620 words. Yes, it's like a book in itself (as my husband pointed out). And
it has helped me so much.
I can't wait to continue writing this story I've been
working on, and I hope to be finished with the first draft within a couple months!
It's been so long since my last book came out, May 2012, and so much has
happened since then to keep me from writing (school, graduation, husband's
masters degree program, low self-esteem, pregnancy, first baby, work, house
work, cooking, cleaning, moving, missions, family, and so much more), but it
feels great to be finally back on track! And hopefully I can make it last for
good now. Keep a look out on the blog to find more updates on the novel I'm working
on, and hopefully I'll be able to reveal more as I keep up the writing!
Thanks
for reading!
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