Sometimes life is hard.
And sometimes it isn’t.
Today was the latter. Can’t really tell you WHY it was such a not-hard day, especially given that there were several of the usual roadblocks – more than usual in fact. I had apartment stuff interject itself, I had to go and get my teeth cleaned at the dentist, and I woke up over an hour late…and yet today was still easy. It’s the darndest thing.
I got all my work done. Netflix. Narrations. I even sat down at the end of night and wrote 1,600 words on Starstuff for the new opening scene. I mean, I got an hour NAP in the day for god sakes. Oh, and I played a smidge of Fallout, too! It’s the darndest thing.
The new opening needs work, BUT…I really do think this is finally a step in the right direction. It’s the third opening I’ve written for this novel. Hopefully third time is the charm 😛 I really, really like the opening couple paragraphs. I say that it needs work because I think I need to figure out how to cut two pages from it…but we shall see. We’ll see how it reads in a day or two.
Tomorrow, I’ll pen the other scene that needs rewriting, which I don’t think is going be nearly as long, and it’s definitely nowhere near as important as that opening scene. Then Sunday, I probably won’t do anything with it, let it sit. Maybe Monday, too…then read through those couple scenes and see how they are, do some editing and rewriting. That’s the new timeline. Set me right up for taking exactly 6 weeks longer than I thought it was going to 😛
See, all of this is so nebulous and anxiety producing because I’m doing it all for the first time. After this, it WON’T be the first time. I’ll have done it before. And tracked (at least here in the end) how long all the steps took me, and even what all the steps were. I mean…that’ll be huge. I’m looking forward to that very, very much. Right now, I’m giddy about the idea of putting my manuscript into Vellum (an eBook formatting program) and choosing a template for how it’s going to look…I mean…then this fucking thing is going to be a BOOK and not just a manuscript. I’m definitely fighting the desire to jump right to that step right now. I must finish the process.
Anywho, it’s late. I need to go to bed…
Today was a good day. I hope yours was too. And if it wasn’t, may tomorrow be that day 😉