So, the book has run aground these past two days, which is so, soooo frustrating...but there is a difference, folks. There truly is...I'm putting in the time. I really am. I did a lot of free-writing today, trying to wrap my brain around why I was frozen, why this...

I spent all of my time, almost, brainstorming today for a set of scenes that are just not quite working yet. They're still fuzzy, and fuzzy translates as LAZY on the page. I *did* put in my time, however, and I wrote 250 actual new words once the opening to the scene...

Do you remember the Star Wars boxed set of VHS tapes? The ones we grew up watching, with all the frayed edges of the cardboard, and the making-of documentary that would play before the first movie (I think?). Those were the movies of my childhood. For my family, we'd...