I have been wanting to blog for weeks now, but every time the thought entered my head I would cringe. It's been so LONG! It's a crazy conundrum. I have things I want to share, but am so out of practice the process seems impossibly foreign.
To catch up, I did get a shiny new laptop. He's still shiny, amazingly. No coffee spills (please don't let me jinx myself) to mar his beauty. Writing has been a crazy thing for me this year. I revised the hell out of Skinwalkers. Then did it again. Another round is forthcoming, but I'm on break. And yet ideas trickle into my head. I need to write them down. For now, I'm just pushing them aside and thinking through the new story that is waiting to be written. And yet Skinwalkers issues plague me.
I feel somewhat crippled. As though the issues of one story will carry through to the next. Mainly: characterization. I need to work on it. I know this. And knowing this, and knowing the work it's going to take to fix it in Skinwalkers, has caused a brain freeze for the new story. I'm afraid to start because I KNOW I don't have a clear enough picture of the characters. I can't just throw myself in it like usual. Can I?
These are the thoughts that rush through my head and keep me from doing much of anything except online shopping.
I wanted to get a good chunk of the new story written before heading back to revise again. But the time has slipped away and for some reason I always feel like I have to hurry. "Hurry," my brain says. "Hurry and finish and send it out." But that defies the attitude I have worked so hard to cultivate this year. I WILL NOT RUSH THE STORY. So I'm slow. Come January, we'll see what words come out.
I hope you all are well out there in blog world. I will try to swing by. Until then, happy holidays and happy writing!
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