digs around, looking for her brain
I took my kid to her friend’s house 4+ hours ago, and I’ve been sneezing, congested, and brainless since. DESPITE an allergy pill hours before I left the house (24-hour relief my ass!) and some mucinex more recently (and yes, i checked that there were no known interactions.)
My AC isn’t working in the car right now, so I did have to have the windows down. It was a lovely drive–until about half a mile from home, when I realized the sneezing was going to stick around.
I didn’t know it was going to stay THIS BLASTED LONG.
Anywhooo. I’m here, but not here. Sorry (as usual) for the lack of updates. I told myself today I should either start posting more, or take the blog down. I don’t want to take the blog down. Let’s see if that gets me posting more.
(Narrator Voice: Don’t bet on it.)
So. I’m looking at fixing my blog, because now that they’ve changed things (THANKS WORDPRESS) when you click on “blog” in the header menu (which I hate) it takes you to a page that DOES NOT CONTAIN MY BLOG. Grr…
I usually like WP a lot, but I don’t tinker with it much, so every time I do, I’ve probably forgotten everything I knew and have to start over at the beginning. Which is fine if I decide my blog needs updating, so I’m starting over because I want to. It is less fine if WordPress decides that I need to update. Now. Because it broke things.
Grr.
Though I am still furloughed, I am not doing a lot other than growling at my blog innards. I’m still trying to grow vegetables. I’m writing about 3k a day on a fun book, but I’m only keeping about half of those words right now. If that.
Actually–this is a thing I came to my blog to check on, so I’ll go deeper.
Sometimes I write so fast that I outpace my plotting brain. I’ve learned to recognize it when I hit a point where I don’t know what happens next. Or rather, I do, but I don’t know how to write it. And I’ve learned that at that point, I need to stop writing forward, and go back and edit. By the time I get to the cliff-of-dropped-story, I will know how to build the bridge I need to The End.
This is a good thing to know! But I have to be careful not to stop too soon, too. What if I could figure out what to do if I just thought about it, and it’s too soon for the go-back-and-edit method? I’ve done that, where I went back to the beginning and got lost there, because I didn’t have enough story to know what my beginning needed to be.
(If this is hard to follow, please blame the meds.)
So what I came to my blog to find, was at what point the wheels usually come off. Is it right at the end of Act Two? Sooner? A bit later? No idea. Can’t find where I talked about it, though I’m sure I did. I even remember it happened when I was writing Joss the first time, probably after the end of NaNo… I think that was the first time I recognized it, so it must have happened at least once before then.
I’ll go look more in a bit, because I’m curious and also it’s a good way to avoid writing for a bit longer.
Oh, and for future reference, to my future self–in this book, it seems to have happened right after the All Is Lost beat. I’m not quite done with it, poking at the Dark Night of the Soul, and I’m stuck in quicksand. So I’m gonna go work on that.
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