*Sniffle* *Cough* Don't you just love summer colds? My little guy is getting over one, and usually I can avoid them, but not this time. *Sigh* Ah well.
Having fun with the current work in progress. Have decided to self-pub this one, and a novella I wrote three years ago. I'm finding that the story is flowing much better not worrying about what a publisher is going to think. I can think of writing the best story I can write without those boundaries. It's so liberating.
Writing in a different genre, one I've never written in before (Paranormal Young Adult Mystery, yeah, it's a mishmash)is turning out to be a lot of fun, too. I have to write before work and on my half hour lunch but I get two pages done each session and it works.
Knowing that I don't have a lot of time helps me to just get down and write. I don't have time to ruminate or whine. This seems to work for me. Most of Dirty Business was written during Nano two Novembers ago. Just pushing through and blocking out all the self-doubt and inner talk really worked well for me. So I'm kind of doing the same thing here.
If you just shut up and write, you allow your characters to talk to you because you're not blocking them or drowning them out with your own inner dialogue. Worries and self-doubt or creativity killers for me. I'm learning to block it out because I just don't have time for it.
Early in the morning the parking lot sessions are good because it's not too hot to work yet. Autumn is good for outdoor car sessions too. But come winter, I'll have to figure something out. My little guy doesn't nap much for me anymore. So I have to make time while I'm out of the house.
Aside from working the day job, spending a lot of time staring into space trying to clear my cottony feeling mind.
Not workin' so hot today.
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