What is the difference between a book and a novel anyway? I don't feel like looking it up. Viscerally, a novel is whimsical and fun; a book is solid and heavy/real. I'm writing a novel... no it sounds too much like it's going to be silly but that's what it is. And I would love to be a novelist.
I have to start asking myself though, "why do I want to be a novelist?" Just so I won't have to go to the office anymore? In my head I am sitting at home writing away. but that dream leaves out the struggle and the blood poring out of every pore and how much easier it is to just read someone else's story [the evil box with moving pictures comes to mind]. So I have to make this commitment. Or I should give up this dream for good. It's all lost blood. And the accomplishment of working it out. It's the most challenging, wonderful thing. But getting myself to sit in this chair and work at the puzzle, that's the trick. So I have to face the evil day job 5 days a week. but I have to start getting back in the chair and writing for those few hours I get every day. I need to make my own stories, instead of soaking in someone else's.
And today I am in a transition scene--my least favorite thing of all. I analyzed my writer's block and immediately figured out a scene that interested me. But getting to that scene--my transition scene has to be done to setup the next scene--but oy!! boring. I have to put effort into figuring out what's interesting about what will happen in this scene. At the very least it brings one of my threads back that I had dropped and puts it back front and center into the story.
So I am off to figure out how to approach this scene.
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