More Progress! (And spare time issues)
Sep. 18th, 2005 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseJust finished a scene (All but the closing line, because I couldn't get the phrasing *just* right) and decided I needed a break for a minute. Hurrah!
I spent a large part of the week looking through a printout of the draft up to this point. The good news is, it holds together better, so far, than I was starting to feel it did. Not that it lacks bad tangents or first-drafty clunkiness, but that the core story really wasn't buried as deeply as I feared.
The better news is that going through, finding that out, and making copious scribbles about future changes what needed to be changed once I do a real rewrite got my mind moving right, and let me make the progress I made last night and today.
The bad news is that going over what I already wrote ate up almost a week's worth of writing time. It remains to be seen if the yet-tighter schedule will counteract all the good of a fresh mind and a renewed sense of direction.
Anyhow, I decided to wander onto the net for a break on writing, but I mean to go back after supper. I feel like I could keep going, if I give myself a breather first. (Of course, this is also writing, but it's less difficult to come up with.)
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I've already warned the church choir that it's unlikely I'll make it the next few weeks before (and during) Viable Paradise. Which of course means that one of our ministers is getting (re)confirmed next week, and they asked the choir to do an extra bit to help that out. Now, too, the Diggers' group is meeting Minday nights for a while -- it's a necessary step to becoming a member of the hurch, and sort of a next step after Alpha Courses for what aspects of religion and religious traditions it discusses, which emans it will probably be very interesting. I've always been curious about religious practices, in general as a subject and in particular as to how they affect the lives of those practicing them. Colin has an Bachelor's in World Religions, so he's, if anything, worse. Or at least more analytical.
It does, however, fit with my theory that every time I try to sneak in some more open time, something has to come up and smack me up-side the head and take some more. Maybe that will change if I actually get the change in work-hours I'm hoping for.
I spent a large part of the week looking through a printout of the draft up to this point. The good news is, it holds together better, so far, than I was starting to feel it did. Not that it lacks bad tangents or first-drafty clunkiness, but that the core story really wasn't buried as deeply as I feared.
The better news is that going through, finding that out, and making copious scribbles about future changes what needed to be changed once I do a real rewrite got my mind moving right, and let me make the progress I made last night and today.
The bad news is that going over what I already wrote ate up almost a week's worth of writing time. It remains to be seen if the yet-tighter schedule will counteract all the good of a fresh mind and a renewed sense of direction.
Anyhow, I decided to wander onto the net for a break on writing, but I mean to go back after supper. I feel like I could keep going, if I give myself a breather first. (Of course, this is also writing, but it's less difficult to come up with.)
________
I've already warned the church choir that it's unlikely I'll make it the next few weeks before (and during) Viable Paradise. Which of course means that one of our ministers is getting (re)confirmed next week, and they asked the choir to do an extra bit to help that out. Now, too, the Diggers' group is meeting Minday nights for a while -- it's a necessary step to becoming a member of the hurch, and sort of a next step after Alpha Courses for what aspects of religion and religious traditions it discusses, which emans it will probably be very interesting. I've always been curious about religious practices, in general as a subject and in particular as to how they affect the lives of those practicing them. Colin has an Bachelor's in World Religions, so he's, if anything, worse. Or at least more analytical.
It does, however, fit with my theory that every time I try to sneak in some more open time, something has to come up and smack me up-side the head and take some more. Maybe that will change if I actually get the change in work-hours I'm hoping for.
