It’s a mad mad mad world out there

I haven’t been writing the last couple of weeks. Between celebrating my 42nd birthday and getting caught up in world affairs (of which make me sick) I have found it hard to be creative.

I started by settling up some of my world building lore and history. Things that I know feed into the project that I have been working on. I had to get over the fact that I would need to re-con some of what I have already written because it was either not enough or doesn’t cause enough tension or conflict.

Today, I am working on a scene that I wasn’t happy with the first time around and I know needed more. I’m going to be reworking the whole build up for the first act and part of the opening second act.

This novel is going to be the longest written piece I have ever done and I can see why 120,000 words is a challenge to write. I am only halfway to where I want to get to but I have stopped looking at the total words because I know that that number is constantly going up and down again as I write new scenes and re-write others ones to account for the changes to the plot.

I can’t wait for the day when I can share more about the story and world that I have been working on. I am happy with the frame work I have built for myself and I hope that the lessons that I learn from this project will allow me to become a better writer at the end of it.