Today, after my hectic but enjoyable weekend, I have married the two parts of my story up. My hero and heroine have got married as well. All that remains now is for me to read it through and hope everything works. I’m going out for a meal in an hour’s time so I might have a drink or two in celebration. Not that I intend cheering too soon – not after what’s happened on previous occasions. Actually I feel more like going to bed. My eyes are so tired. I don’t usually work such long hours as I have today.
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Nearly there!
I have a weekend of grandchildren ahead. Well, two to be exact. One who is fourteen and another who is nearly two. I wonder which one will be the most trouble?
We’re going shopping for curtain material with my daughter and guess who will be making up her curtains? Needless to say she will have to wait until my re-write is finished.
Which shouldn’t be long now. With a bit of luck it will be leaving me next week. I’m crossing my fingers that I can use the last chapter from the original – which means that all I had to do was fill in the part between the first and last chapters.
Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
You’ve no idea how I’ve sweated over this book.
Happy Mother’s Day for Sunday to all you English mothers out there.
Words
When I’m writing and I’m stuck for the right word I can’t go on until I find it. I’ve tried leaving a space but it always niggles at me and I have to fill in the gap before I can go any further. I need to write to the best of my ability at all times.
I’m not sure whether this is a failing or a good thing. It’s silly I know because it holds my work up, it stops the flow, and yet I cannot help myself. I am a perfectionist in most things and I guess this has some relationship to it.
So how about you? How do you cope when you can’t find the right word? Do you leave it until later? Does it pop into your head when you’re not thinking about it? Or do you, like me, need to find it straight away?
Slow, slow, quick quick, slow.
Today is my wedding anniversary but since it’s not any great milestone it’s been like a normal day. I’m working on Chapter 11 but for some reason it’s slow going. I seem to write in spurts. Some days really slow, and another I’ll whizz along. On Saturday – not normally a writing day but my DH was out – I wrote a whole chapter. But then of course I had Sunday off and so today was at snail’s pace. I wrote less than a thousand words. Fingers crossed that tomorrow will be better.
