Saturday, July 16, 2005

Back again

Back on daylight once again. Can't say I'm having fun, but as it's the weekend, it could be worse.

I had a lot of fun working with my dad the last few days... but man, did he kick my ass. I am so sore. I got a great workout out of it. That's always a plus. Spent all days yeasterday pretty much sleeping. Slept late, took a nap, went to bed early.... my kind of day! But not real conducive to getting work done on the WIP. I didn't even read at all yesterday, just watched a little TV and snoozed. Talk about lazy.

This morning, my characters that are trying to get me to work on their story, rather than my WIP, told me their names... I think that they are trying to torture me. I'm stalled on my WIP and keep putting off working on it in favor of reading, 'cause I can't figure out where to go now... and then these new characters keep yakking at me. Before, I used to get my new ideas right as I was finishing the current story, making it easy to move right into a new story, but this one is making me nuts. I'm listening to what they are saying, taking a few notes and trying to push them to the back burner, until I finish with this one, but they keep popping up anyway.

I'm anxious to get this WIP finished, not only to start on my next story, but also so I can give my WIP to my friend to critique. I'm anxious to see if this one is as good as I think it is.. so far. I will say for sure that it is 1000% better than anything that I wrote in college. I'm surprised that my friend is even willing to read this after the torture I put her through in school. Poor P-Nut is probably blind by now. Nah... they weren't quite that bad, close but not that bad.

Anyhow, until next time. Ya'll have a good weekend.

2 Comments:

Blogger Patti O'Shea said...

Jillian,

This is a problem I have all the time--characters come in and start talking to me before I've finished the WIP. The thing is, the new story is always so much more enticing than the story I'm working on. Probably because I'm not actually writing it yet. :-/ It's tough to ignore them, but it must be done--if I didn't, I'd never finish a book. Sometimes, though, they're persistent, then I have a little talk with them and tell the new characters that they have to wait their turn. So far, that's worked. Good luck!

Patti

1:13 PM, July 16, 2005  
Blogger Jillian Beane said...

Thanks, I'll try that, 'cause they are drowning out my current WIP characters and making it really hard to work on the WIP... especially since I am stuck in one spot that I can't seem to move past.

1:18 PM, July 16, 2005  

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