A little bit stuck
So I managed 5,000 words of my latest book so far, and it all went swimmingly. Then, at the beginning of chapter 2, I came to my first 'hmm'. Fortunately it's not so bad a 'hmm'--like a 'what the...?' but it is a time where the writing no longer flows and I really need to take stock and think where the book, and more importantly, the characters are going next.I realize my tendency as a writer is to give away too much too soon in terms of emotional conflict and development. I generally have to scale back and put things I wrote in chapter 1 in chapter 5 or 7 or even 10. Yet writing it in chapter 1 helps me see what I need in later chapters... part of the drafting process, I suppose.
We've had workmen in our apartment all week putting doors on--something that is a long time coming. We moved apartments in July, and when we moved in we discovered that the contractors in charge of the renovations had taken off all the doors and thrown them away. Why, you might ask, would someone do that? Well the apartment is old and the doors were in bad shape, and the management company was rushing to get the new tenants--us--in. So they trashed the doors and I guess they thought we wouldn't notice, except with 4 kids and no doors to the bedrooms, guess what? We notice!
First we piled boxes and then we got a shower curtain, but now we have lovely double doors, which I will take a photo of tomorrow to show you... anyway, all this to say with the workmen in the apartment all day, and an extremely inquisitive one year old following them around and fascinated with the circular saw, it's a wonder I got any writing done at all.
posted by Kate Hewitt at
6:07 PM
