A Lull

I don’t believe I’ve written anything for the book in this month. I hope that I still am able to pick this thing back up.

I purposely took some time off after the completion of the first full draft. Over that time I planned on going over my assembled notes I had made about the book. Any ideas or points that were not already included. I have been writing these down on a central piece of paper that I can refer to when writing the second draft. Currently, I have one more notebook to go through to look for notes.

There was another good reason for the break in writing. At the time of the writing of Draft 1a, I could work on two halves of the book semi-independently of each other. At first I worked on the first and second halves together, then focussed on the second half of the book. Once that was finished I returned to the beginning, completing the first half of the book. I use “half” not in the literal sense. The first section is probably only 25-30% of the book. So when I completed the first draft, I finished the first quarter of the book.

So, having most recently worked on the first part of the book, I did not want to turn around and dive right back into that section.

I was also on vacation for a little more than a week this month, and had no opportunity to write. I did make a lot of notes and start to put together some plot lines that created themselves as the book was being written. I think it will strengthen the book greatly. I have a good feel for the characters and story now, so should be able to tie everything together.

Of course, this all assumes that I can get back into the groove of writing. Now that I haven’t been doing it, I have filled those time slots up with other life activities. I will have to find some other chunk of time for those things so I can get back to my evening writing routines.