I would love to tell you all about the wonderful things that have been keeping me too busy to write over the last few months. Things like getting married, moving into a new house, selling my old house, having 3 times as many daughters as I had before the wedding and learning all about blending families. All of those things have happened in the last two months, but they are all still just excuses that kept me from hitting my daily word counts. I can do better.
The thing that really slowed me down was that I rewrote the first 12,000 words of my first draft to change it from 3rd person to 1st person. I did some research and found that most of the successful books in my genre have been written in 1st person. So I decided to make the change before progressing any further in the narrative. And that process was terrible, it sucked the life right out my writing. The wonderful daily activity of exploring the new world I was creating was suddenly replaced with mind-numbing editing. My creativity and passion for the project fell off a cliff and I just couldn't bring myself to write in the mornings anymore.
But I am writing again. I have doubled-down my efforts and I'm plotting a lot more and doing more pre-writing so that I can just let the creativity flow again. I'm not back up to the amazing numbers I was posting in January of this year, but I'm moving forward. Anyway, I'm writing again and that is god news. Cheers!
