A Small Victory
Apr. 10th, 2020 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grav_ityMy brother and I managed to guilt my parents into NOT driving around the countryside delivering hot cross buns this weekend, which is GOOD, except NOW I DON'T HAVE ANY, so I decided...to make some.
I don't have raisins or currents, but I figured, what the heck.
They're on their second rise. I am not optimistic. But they smell great!
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Yesterday I read through the 5K I have already written on Space Bees, and I don't hate it. I added some stuff to my outline and then, just before bed, had the scene from the end of Part 1 appear in my head, so I wrote it out longhand (it'll change by the time I get to it, I'm sure, but at least now I know where I'm going).
Next up: write the 18K that bridges the 5K I already have and the 2Kish I mapped out last night, giving me a 25K Part 1. Basically it'll be nine 2K chapters, or nine things, and I can think of nine things!
Probably.
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I'm watching the Samira Wiley A Night on Earth documentary on Netflix. It's okay. It's basically the night camera guys from Planet Earth gone amok, so the production values are good, and the writing and music and science are all solid. It's quite violent, I'm finding? Probably because everything happens in the dark. Also, I desperately miss David Attenborough. All his documentaries except for one have disappeared from Netflix, so I can't even rewatch them for comfort.
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I think going forward, instead of waking up at 3, 4, or 5am and reading (Twitter) for a bit before sleeping until 8, I am going to get up and WRITE. I'm astonishingly clear-headed for that wake up, and it'll make me feel like I'm going outside the box. I've realized that this'll be the first book I've written in a chair since SPINDLE, and the first book I've written at home EVER, so any "cheat" will help.
Mostly it's just nice to have a plan. And an idea. God, I've missed the WANT to write.
I don't have raisins or currents, but I figured, what the heck.
They're on their second rise. I am not optimistic. But they smell great!
++
Yesterday I read through the 5K I have already written on Space Bees, and I don't hate it. I added some stuff to my outline and then, just before bed, had the scene from the end of Part 1 appear in my head, so I wrote it out longhand (it'll change by the time I get to it, I'm sure, but at least now I know where I'm going).
Next up: write the 18K that bridges the 5K I already have and the 2Kish I mapped out last night, giving me a 25K Part 1. Basically it'll be nine 2K chapters, or nine things, and I can think of nine things!
Probably.
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I'm watching the Samira Wiley A Night on Earth documentary on Netflix. It's okay. It's basically the night camera guys from Planet Earth gone amok, so the production values are good, and the writing and music and science are all solid. It's quite violent, I'm finding? Probably because everything happens in the dark. Also, I desperately miss David Attenborough. All his documentaries except for one have disappeared from Netflix, so I can't even rewatch them for comfort.
++
I think going forward, instead of waking up at 3, 4, or 5am and reading (Twitter) for a bit before sleeping until 8, I am going to get up and WRITE. I'm astonishingly clear-headed for that wake up, and it'll make me feel like I'm going outside the box. I've realized that this'll be the first book I've written in a chair since SPINDLE, and the first book I've written at home EVER, so any "cheat" will help.
Mostly it's just nice to have a plan. And an idea. God, I've missed the WANT to write.
