Going rogue tonight. Living on the edge. I’m not choosing my blog “title” for the day before actually writing my entry. I know! I’m crazy!
Man, today was a pretty good day, y’all. I think this marks 10 days of me doing my writing hour first thing in the morning. Well…first thing after eating and walking the pups. But, you know, the first PRODUCTIVE thing of the day.
I set the timer for a full 40 minutes today. That’s two minutes longer than I was “scheduled” to set it, but since I hadn’t thought of doing it this way, I didn’t start doing it on the first of the month, which made it hard for me to keep track of what minute I “should” be on for that date. Well…now it’s easy. Today was the 10th. I started at 30 minutes, and so that means today I did 40 minutes. Adding a minute each day. Much easier to keep track of now. Tomorrow is the 11th, so I do 41 minutes. Bam!
The writing today was really nice. I’m going through my Beta-Reader feedback from the 1.5 draft, and it’s not like I felt like it was “bad” when I got it back…but I guess I forgot how good and encouraging it all was. Genuinely. And I know that a couple of these people are legit hard to impress…and there was absolutely a ton of GREAT feedback…that’s why I’m going back through it all, in fact, because I’m about to strategize on what exactly is going to be done to the next draft of the book…but it was really really cool to read through these comments about how much my beta-readers enjoyed reading the novel, and which characters they each loved, and what moments that worked for them. I mean, man…it made me feel like a WRITER today. Like a story-teller. Having the effect of making someone fall in love with a character, or feeling real suspense at a plot point…
…I’d forgotten for a little while THAT is the whole point. The whole point of telling a story is to affect someone. And to have the affect written down in black and white was really powerful to me today. It made me remember why I do what I do…and it made me feel like “yes,” I *am* doing the right thing by choosing to do this, to put in all this work. So, cheers to my Beta-Readers! I literally couldn’t do this without you!
I also did quite a bit of narration work today, and took a nice long nap to try and re-charge those batteries. This week is going to be another long one, I’m afraid. So much to do. I can’t have any distractions this week. I need to take a sizable chunk out of this editing work. It’s all on me now to slog through it, and I know can. Just have to put my head down and plow through.
Then the Ho came home and we walked the pups together and then went to have dinner at BCD Tofu house, which is a staple of the bear household. Ahhhhhh. It was so good. And then she got Ice Cream at this new place that was nearby, we caught some Pokemon for her, and then we came home and watched some of Spy, which so far has been super super funny. Hopefully we can finish it tomorrow.
Anywho…it was a good day, guys. Time for the sleeps now. Catch you on the flip!
Artwork tonight is from Syd Mead.