I’ve got Heart of the Wood moving again. I think I was trying to move the story too quickly. I scaled the speed back a little and got a couple of good scenes out of it. Just need to figure out one more transition, where I need to pass a couple of weeks worth of dating time. After that, the story is more or less written.
If this child of mine wasn’t acting like an animal, I would probably be writing right now. There are days when I just want to scream, and this is one of them *laugh*
I’ve been fighting Heart of the Wood for a few days now. I’m so close to the spark this story needs, but I just can’t get a handle on it. I’ve tried skipping ahead and coming back, letting it sit for a while — pretty much everything.
It’s bad enough when I have no inspiration. Not having any focus on something that does have inspiration is even worse. I can’t seem to wrap my brain around any other story, either. This one keeps intruding because it’s “on the tip of my tongue”.
Had breakthroughs on two stories ( both as Les ) Heart of the Wood should move pretty smoothly now. Beyond this point, the story is all but written in my head.
The other is testing new waters ( and a new category ) I’m expecting some torpedoes *laugh* It’s just a set-up and sex story — plot lite.
Concentrating on those at the moment, because they’re for the Valentine’s contest, and it starts in two days.
Going to try to get a new keyboard tomorrow. The c key is dead on this one. I have to type k and use auto correct or paste it any time I want to type it. Real pain in the posterior.
I’m sort of alternating between a story in my third name, Heart of the Wood, Lowborn, and SOTM. Nothing is moving very fast, but at least I’m going somewhere.
I was at another one of those transition spots where I needed to move something along in Heart, and I think I’ve figured that out. Unfortunately, there are going to be a lot of those in this story. I have to build a relationship, but I have to do it without the story being six Lit pages long. They’re often tricky, and my natural tendency is to let the characters run, which usually results in a lot of interesting dialogue/development, but which slows the story down.
It’s much the same in SOTM and Lowborn. I’m trying to get past a little sticking point, and can’t quite find the right transition. Lowborn is a near complete rewrite of a chapter I’d already finished, so at least I know where it’s going. SOTM is at the dead end of a chapter. If I can just get this transition to work right, I can get this on in the can.
The story in my third name was only a problem because of the form I write in under that name. If I was writing this story as Les, it would have already been done. The original idea I had in my head was a bit more complicated, and that flowed pretty easily. Unfortunately, it was a Les length/plotted story with the word choice and flow of my third pen name. The characters and basic premise are better suited to the portfolio of my third name, so I pared down and condensed.
Which of course leaves me at a transition, just like everything else I’m working on *laugh* I have to try to get some sort of believable segue between the set-up and the sex now. I think I’m almost there, after writing and deleting probably 3-4k words from the Les-long drafts.
Think I’m going to try to get in bed and see if I can’t have at least one productive day of writing tomorrow. It’s really the last day of my vacation ( I normally have weekends off anyway ) so I hope I can make something out of it.
It’s taking me some time to get past the awkward meeting phase in “Heart of the Wood”, but it is progressing. If I can just get the pacing right through the beginning, I should be good from that point on.
Finally feeling a bit rested and I’ve managed to accomplish some of the other mundane things that I wanted to get done while I was on vacation, so maybe that will help as well.
