I decided to stop trying to fit the new direction (this is what, direction number 5?) into the existing manuscript. Instead, I sat down today and just started writing it. I’ll smerge them later, after the whole thing is done and I can see it in its entirety.
I wrote just over 600 words today. Not much, true, but it felt good to get physical with this story, get it out of my head. There’s so much jumbled crap in there right now that I had to keep pausing to slow it down. It wasn’t making any sense at all, even to me.
At any rate, I am writing again. Did I ever actually stop? I don’t know. Gotta think about that one. I wrote some poetry of sorts; tossed some ideas together for the next EDSToday article; scribbled a lot of (digital) notes about some story ideas; wrote some on SS…so no, I didn’t actually stop.