Today's goal is 700 words.
Here's the problem- works actually fun the past few months.
They've got me on a new project- where I'm creating documentation and spending alot of time hunting out new opportunities to add information.
It's light years from my normal job.
I have no idea how long my luck will hold out- before they send me back to the normal job.
I'm torn.
I'm a lot more productive when I'm a little more miserable. But I really prefer my current job. And it's a paycheck week to week. Whereas when I'm miserable at work, it's a paycheck week to week and a few pages of writing But I don't seem to truly be getting closer to ending this thing.
OK, so 2nd issue.
I have a serious dis-interest problem in the end. Things were moving a long and I was happy and now SCREECH. I'm stuck.
I'm making things too easy for the MC. But, on the other hand, it is so easy to revise. I need to just push ahead and worry about raising the stakes in the 2nd draft.
3rd issue actually is that I don't think I've connected enough with the story. So much has happened but maybe less should have happened so the characters had more chance to get a personality.
[note: I just read a story where, well to be honest, there was a lot of talking, but there was plot and not much character development. Actually I take it back, I think it was all the talking and debating that killed the storyline for me. Not the fact that there was lots of plot]. My big pet peeve: I hate being told what to think, I don't like being preached at.
And one thing I noticed is that throwing lots of logic at the story problem doesn't make the problem go away. Cause as nice as the argument might be, the story problems don't really get buried under all that talking.
So difficulty #1: Need to put all this stuff aside- all the rushing to get to the end, all the worries that it's all a waste of time.
I want this next scene done.
I can figure out what I need for transition scenes and additional scenes later. But this scene is okay to write, however it comes out, and finally give my conscious mind something to work with.
