A Corporate Restructure of Sorts
This past week and a half of writing… it’s been kicking my butt.
The Good: I HAVE been writing daily.
The Bad: I have not been writing AS MUCH as I had wanted to during my daily writings. To be fair, a lot of this is because my outline just straight up did not work. I’ve had to put a pause on the progress I’ve made so far to restructure my outline. The problem, simply, is that in this first of three novels, I didn’t have enough tension. I was focusing too much on back-story and explanation and not enough on ACTION. Novels 2 and 3 of this series are jam packed with tons of action, but I didn’t realize when I was outlining quite how much of Novel 1 was just nothing but build up for 2 and 3. It’s great if I’m going to write just one gigantic epic novel, but it’s not so great if I want to hit my goal of writing a trilogy where all three novels can stand on their own.
The Ugly: Getting one area of my life structured is highlighting that there are other areas of my life that are vastly unstructured. Literally, the only structure in my day is my writing. I don’t have a specific bedtime or wake time. I don’t have specific meal times. I don’t have specific chore times. Pretty much I just sort of float around doing whatever when I’m not actively writing, and because of that I’m feeling VERY lopsided. So, in addition to restructuring my outline for the novel, I’m restructuring my days.
All in all, I’m pleased with my progress – more than pleased, in fact. But I have a lot of work to do and I don’t think I really will do it in one month. I’m not taking that as a failure, though, because within this month, I’m actually tackling a lot of issues that I’ve been slacking on that may not have anything to do with writing, but definitely effect my writing. In the long run, I think getting these issues resolved – or, at least, well on their way to being resolved – will ultimately help me be a better writer.
I’ve learned one thing for sure: blogging can’t go by the wayside. It really, really helps me sort out my thoughts and feelings. Already, just writing this, I am feeling less anxious and tense about all this restructuring going on in my life.
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