Hello, writers. A few days ago I did that thing where you’re cutting something tough with a sharp kitchen knife and you keep right on going into your finger. Quite a nasty cut. That leaves me typing with nine fingers, so I’ll be a bit brief tonight.
Since I started my current WIP on March 3, I’ve been going flat out. I missed three days a month ago to go to Canada, but other than that, I’ve worked on this thing every single day. It’s partly not wanting to lose the thread (Stephen King talk about this in On Writing, which you should read if you haven’t) and partly wanting to prove that You-Know-Who (not Voldemort… well, okay, yes, Voldemort) can’t stop me from writing.
But I was stuck in the middle of revising scenes 46 and 47 when I cut my finger. So I printed them out. And I went through them in different colored pens. Made circles and underlines. Crossed things out. Wrote “Keep this if you possibly can” and “This is important” enough times that I realized I couldn’t just delete everything.
Then yesterday, needing to run some errands, I didn’t work at all, for the first day in over a month.
This morning I woke up, looked at the 2 scenes, and realized that everything in the scenes needed to stay but that there were 4 disparate events that needed to happen in a different order. (2, 3, 1, 4).
This reminds me of something I knew but keep forgetting: Stepping away from the manuscript for a bit is often a good idea.
Since the above doesn’t lend itself to a Tonight’s Challenge, I’m going to do the old two-random words from the dictionary thing.
Here are the words:
plush square
Write a dialogue between two characters, at least one of whom has something to hide. Use the phrase “plush square”. Limit yourself to 150 words.
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