Stalling
The prelim work on my novel is done. All that remains now is to get writing. Beginnings are easy and hard. The first paragraph is always hard. After that, it comes on its own generally. I haven’t written that first paragraph.
On the other hand, I finally finished a story I’d been working on for four years. I’d gotten stuck at the halfway point, dreading a scene the story needed but that I wasn’t sure how to handle. After a friend lit a proverbial fire under me with a supportive but kicking my ass type of lecture this last weekend, I decided to just buckle down and finish it. It went pretty well, actually. Now I’ve got the fun task of editing it.
Speaking of editing, hopefully my new computer will be up and running soon so I can salvage my novel from the old one and get cracking on that. I’d like to have a comprehensive edit done by March. I’m not sure 28 days is reasonable but I need some sort of deadline or I’ll just keep putting it off forever.
And finally, I called the graduate program I applied to and they have everything they need. Which means now it really is the waiting game. Thankfully I have tons of projects to distract me. I hate wait.
