Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Check in at Orchid house...slogging, yet again :-)

Oh golly, about 5 inches of snow have melted here in the last week, so it practically feels like spring! Sure, there's still 3 and half feet of snow on my deck....but at least it's not four anymore!

I haven't been thinking of the story much, so just for the purposes of discipline, I made myself put off vacuuming to do some writing over my daughter's nap ;-)   435 words, and my goal for Sunday is 1100.  If I can command two more sessions in the meantime, I will be there. Or, pretty close ;-)

I've been doing more writing than thinking about the plot developments, so I know there's a painful hour of 'how did this get here? When did she go there?  What about ol' so and so?" to go through - just to ensure the plot gets back on track. I've been working hard at getting back into my daily routines, so time escapes me before I even notice.  It's good, and  will help me keep carving out keyboard time, but I concede that today's session was quite a large effort.

Still, I'm grateful to have these problems (isn't there a great saying out there? something like if your whole neighborhood got out, and dropped their problems in a stack for a swap, that once you've seen everyone else's, you'd pay money to get your own problems back?) and after all, the ROW IS a Challenge, for a reason!

That's it, that's all, back to your normally scheduled reading.  Drop a shout out to the talents in the blog hop below - they are working very, very hard :-)

S.


4 comments:

  1. I love that saying about putting your troubles in a pile with your neighbors'. I'm sure it's very true.

    Good luck on weaving all those written bits seamlessly into your plot. Sometimes the weaving process reveals its own epiphanies--"Self, move this paragraph here, make this happen before that which means...oh YESSSSS, why didn't this occur to me before!"--moments.

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  2. Woah, you still have snow?

    I've been putting off vacuuming for about a year now. ;)

    At least the plot development will keep you on track and give you easy words when you get a chance to sit down.

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  3. I think there's a certain freedom in that writing without a map. True, it does mean more cleaning up during editing, but it also means the words themselves can be the map. Much success as the week progresses!

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  4. Hiya Claire G! Please feel free to forward any extra epiphanies to me :-) I'm very 'process-driven' in both my writing and my visual arts, so I'll keep an eye out for inspiration. The 'problem pile' idea is a good one for my grumpy moments! Thanks for coming by - wish I'd shoveled for ya first!

    Claire F - You looked cute hurtling over the snow to get here ;-)! We had our white Xmas, a white New Years, Valentines Day, Presidents day, and are heading for a white St.Paddy's day, and possibly Easter as well!! Expecting a lot of green snowbanks on the day after st. Pat's! ;-) I sure hope what I've been doing is plot development - seems more like building a plot-opus. heh. crack myself up...all those arms.... (what a dork!!!!) The dust will wait for ya, park that vacuum! Good of you to come by!!

    Hello Ben - thanks so much for the boost! Yes, there will be clean-up - hopefully with a red word vacuum!! I'm hoping for better focus anytime soon. Might be reaping karma for calling my muse a 'perverse little tart." ...bad Shari. See you Sunday!

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