I've started a new story (secret codename: TOLT).
Finding this story's beginning was a pain. It started with getting stood up and discovered, then waiting for a late friend and witnessing murder and then doing a favor for a friend, witnessing a murder, and being chased.
Version #1: 17 pages
Version #2: 6 pages
Version #3: 0 pages
The reason for the 0 pages is because I haven't started writing the third version yet. I've got the entire first scene in my head and I know from experience that if I run through it mentally over and over again, it will be that much easier to write.
I find it annoying that I spent 17 pages writing only to discover that it was wrong. Then another 6 pages to find out I was still wrong. If I write more than ten pages this time and discover I was wrong again, I'm going to go postal on my characters.
Jeepers.
21.7.11
Writing Breaks: The Frustrating Kind
There are many words and ways to describe what makes up the essence I call "me". I'm an eighteen-year-old country gal who happens to own a frightening number of books. I am also a pianist, a singer of Christmas songs in June, a writer, a bit of a philosopher, and a psychology junkie. I believe in setting my own status quo and I'm still working through the paradox of not caring what people think about me. Whenever I'm not blogging, or reading, or blogging about reading, I'm most likely sitting in a chair with my eyes closed, deep into my own imaginary world.
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