Back In The Writing Game

Posted by Colin Harvey Sep 14, 2008

I've just returned after a week off.

It's been my intention since finishing the first draft of Winter Song to resume today.

Intending to do it is one thing, actually doing it is harder.

Want to write full time? These are the days when the aspiring full-timers get sorted from the real pros. When you look at 100,000 words that has to be licked into shape over the next twelve weeks.

When you look at the first page, and you have six sets of comments from your crit group that are mutually contradictory, when you know that you need to make the character's evolution flow consistently, when the setting needs to fleshed out, when your minor characters need to have a few words of description, the science needs to have the logic holes plugged, and above all when it needs to flow.

OK, enough grousing. Get on with it, Harvey.

Four hours later, two pages are done. Two of the hardest pages I've ever revised, but they're done.

The next two will flow more easily tomorrow, hopefully.

If they don't, they'll just have to be worked at. One way or another.