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Jan. 18th, 2023 05:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spryngGot bowled over by a virus the last few days. On the plus side, it's not COVID, but oof. I feel like every sickness since getting COVID last summer has just felt different. Like, I'm pretty sure this is/was a cold, but I've never felt my lymph nodes swell before and colds don't tend to knock me out, well, cold.
I've also been extra careful when I get sick, taking it slower than I used to. So maybe that's a plus??
Between being sick, kids, and a sudden ability to write again, I've been less here. But I don't want to let that habit - however brief - slide just yet. It's been nice to collect my thoughts for a moment and set them somewhere safe.
It's also been nice to be writing again. Or rather, I've never really had a problem with the writing part, it's that my WIP has had a giant snarl at its end for the last year (more) that every time I approach, I can't figure out how to untangle. So I find other places to fix which means I've rewritten and polished the first 1/3 about 5 times now, the middle 1/3 twice, and the last 1/3 I haven't even touched.
That is not good on several levels, but also because now when I work on the last 1/3 it will be rough and splintery and feel like it doesn't fit at all with the first 2/3, and that's because it hasn't been written and rewritten (and rewritten). Which makes it harder to just write it and part of how I got myself into this mess.
But at least now I have a plan to untangle that last 1/3 and momentum to boot, so hopefully I will be able to actually write "The End" this year, maybe even this season. That would be nice. It's been over 3 years of working on this beast, with constant doubt inbetween, and even if I just write that end and shove it in a drawer, never to be found again, at least I'll be done with it.
I've also been extra careful when I get sick, taking it slower than I used to. So maybe that's a plus??
Between being sick, kids, and a sudden ability to write again, I've been less here. But I don't want to let that habit - however brief - slide just yet. It's been nice to collect my thoughts for a moment and set them somewhere safe.
It's also been nice to be writing again. Or rather, I've never really had a problem with the writing part, it's that my WIP has had a giant snarl at its end for the last year (more) that every time I approach, I can't figure out how to untangle. So I find other places to fix which means I've rewritten and polished the first 1/3 about 5 times now, the middle 1/3 twice, and the last 1/3 I haven't even touched.
That is not good on several levels, but also because now when I work on the last 1/3 it will be rough and splintery and feel like it doesn't fit at all with the first 2/3, and that's because it hasn't been written and rewritten (and rewritten). Which makes it harder to just write it and part of how I got myself into this mess.
But at least now I have a plan to untangle that last 1/3 and momentum to boot, so hopefully I will be able to actually write "The End" this year, maybe even this season. That would be nice. It's been over 3 years of working on this beast, with constant doubt inbetween, and even if I just write that end and shove it in a drawer, never to be found again, at least I'll be done with it.
