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Boy! Have I been slacking lately. I haven’t touched my labyrinth story in like four days. I may be burned out of working. Work has been incredibly harsh lately so the thought of any kind of work (even writing!) just makes me turn around and do something else…like read or play video games. Yes, that’s right I said it. I’ve been participating in the worst kind of slacking…

I need to find a way to get motivated. My birthday has come and gone and I have nothing ready to submit yet.

My issue might be that I love getting the beginning of a story down, and into the middle and then I trail off and just kinda forget to go back and finish the middle of the story. I’m in the doldrums. How do I fix this? I’m really muddling. I don’t think going and revising another story will help as I will lose steam for my unfinished work.

I haven’t been completely shirking my writing duties, however. I have gotten some good reading done. I’m almost done with The Books of the South. Soon I will post a “my thoughts” about it, and I have plenty of them too.

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: The Books of the South – Glen Cook
Scholarly: The Mabinogi – Patrick K. Ford
Writing:(I’m slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

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Good Work Today

I wrote over 1,000 words today on my labyrinth story. It’s now on 8 pages in MS format, and I think I can finish the story in 12. I stayed up way too late on a work night to do this, but it was worth it. I got some good momentum and pushed the story arc onward and developed some characters. I even turned some nice phrases if I do say so myself. Good things!

It’s been a LONG time since I’ve written a story longer than 500 words but shorter than a novel, meaning a standard short story. I’m so very pleased with this one too. It will need A LOT of work when I’ve finished the draft though. Oh well. I like that part the best.

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: The Books of the South – Glen Cook
Scholarly: The Mabinogi – Patrick K. Ford
Writing:(I’m slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

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I haven’t posted in too long. There’s no motivation in laziness. So….
Met with a little writing group tonight. The goal was to put down some words and not just talk and good off online. It was a good session. I wrote a page in about a half hour (which is good for me, but not for the story). Then we read some (meaning I read no one else did).

The story I’m writing now (high plains), I abandoned revising the last one (shutter) for. This is the story that hit me like a rock and I promptly outlined. I see it, I feel it. It’s tone is creeping into my daily life. I love writing it (just need to do it faster). I need to finish it by Monday to submit it to my group. Tomorrow I will shred away at it, because tonight I need to catch up on sleep.

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: The Books of the South – Glen Cook
Scholarly: The Mabinogi – Patrick K. Ford
Writing:(I’m slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

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Frustrations

My website is broken! I really like the layout. But I’ve learned that I cannot keep it. That’s what I get for cheating, I guess. I’m just going to leave it as is for now and figure something else out later. Silly templates!

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: The Books of the South – Glen Cook
Scholarly: The Mabinogi – Patrick K. Ford
Writing:(I’m slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

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Good day

Ok, I haven’t been completely unproductive. I began to get the edits into my short story, working title: Shutter on Joy. I put some pretty poignant symbolism and world development in there, bridging on character development as well. I find that many of my settings are characters themselves. In fact, if you’ve ever workshopped with me, you probably know that I’m a little “focused” on setting.

So after that, what do I do but become massively inspired to write another story. Now, it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten blasted with the entire story in my head at once, even the imagery. And it’s a whole short story. This is very good. (It did take me a couple hours to try to turn it into a novel… but I did stop when that happened.) It feels so good to be inspired so completely. I was even a good little writer and outlined it with tidbits of imagery and dialog for help later when I write it.

Alas I MUST update my resume tonight and not write this story. Perhaps I will dream happily of it (it’s not a happy story, rather dark thank you) instead.

Cheers!

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: The Books of the South – Glen Cook
Scholarly: The Mabinogi – Patrick K. Ford
Writing:(I’m slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0