Sunday 8 January 2012

I'm back and I'm writing

Finally! After weeks of feeling like I'd had my brains scooped out and replaced by porridge, I seem to have regained my motivation.

I think it helped that I was forced to take a complete break over Christmas. With my new niece arriving early, and my brother having to work the week before Christmas, I ended up going down to stay with them, to help out my sister-in-law while my brother was at work. Although it wasn't the most restful of breaks, I had a wonderful time. My niece is such an adorable little baby!

Maybe my subconscious was ticking over while I was running around and cooking meals, because since New Year I've been making steady progress with the editing. I've also come to the conclusion that I was trying to do too much with this edit, so now I'm focusing purely on gap-filling and changes to earlier chapters necessitated by plot changes in later chapters. I think that by simplifying the aim of this edit, I'm less terrified of it, and therefore I'm finding it easier to get writing each day.

Also I feel more positive about what I've written so far. I was rereading a scene yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It gives me hope that even though I doubt this story will ever find a publisher, I will make it with the next one...or the one after that...or the one after that...