It's the end of the week, so it's time to Celebrate the Small Things...
What am I celebrating this week?
It's the weekend!
I had two days off and did a bunch of writing on A Stranger to Kindness. I'm at that awful point in drafting where nothing seems to be hitting the page the way I want it to and everything I write feels like it's in the wrong place or happening at the wrong time.
I know it's all part of the process and that this draft is all about getting the story onto the page and I'll be able to fix it later, but it doesn't feel great. If feels like I'm not getting it right, that I'm not hitting the beats. I think I'm struggling a bit with trying to show Harley's inner conflict between what he's internalised, what he's been told and what he's seeing in his new home.
Hopefully I'll be able to get that layered in once I've finished writing the thing... I'm getting to the meaty stuff now, but can't help thinking that I haven't given the core relationships enough time to develop before getting there. I guess we'll see how it comes out in the end. I've written about 35K words, so it's not like I've got a bloated word count. I can probably write another 10K or so building up those relationships before I need to get to the major turning point, so maybe I'm not in such bad shape.
I hope to get a bunch more writing done over the weekend. The weather looks like it's going to be dreadful, so a good excuse to stay in!
What are you celebrating this week?
Sounds interesting. So much of writing is doing what feels right, isn't it?
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