It's show season in Montana. We saw the national tour (as hubby says, probably "a national tour" not "the") of THE PRODUCERS last night. Amazing. I actually hurt from laughing so much, and the performers were spot-on.
Yay! I love being able to see super-class productions in small-town Montana! 5 minutes from my house, with no waiting!
In reading back over my old blog posts just now, I'm embarrassed by the contrast to now. Now mostly I do random updates on my writing progress and occasional notes, with little else. I used to be much more verbose. Hum. Maybe I said everything already?
Or maybe not. I think rather I'm choosing other outlets for those thoughts, and that's okay. At least partly. You always have archives. {g}
Speaking of writing progress {cough}, I've been struggling with the writing on Ghost Girl over the past week or so, and I realized this morning why. Somehow, I'm holding back again. I'm not dumping everything into it and just having fun. I'm worrying. I think it's reflective of the rigorous query process I'm going through right now with JENNA, with all the emotional ups and downs and simply high-strung waiting that involves. There's so much guessing, second-guessing, market-consciousness etc. in that process that it's dribbling over into my current work. I'm LETTING it dribble over.
I. Must. Stop. This.
Starting today. I'll revise the first bits later if I have to, but I'm freeing it up today. Moving on deeper, but with less stress. Letting my character be whoever the heck she is, even a swearer or a little bit of a bitch, if that's what she is. For now. Remembering that this is a SFD, not a perfect first draft. That I shouldn't start second-guessing my premise at this stage. (if it sells, it sells. If not...I'm writing a story here. It's the story that matters, not whether the premise is popular.)
So there.
Hi Susan!
ReplyDeleteI really relate to what you're experiencing. I'm going through the same thing. It's hard to separate yourself from consciousness of the query process as you're writing, when you are going through the query process with another manuscript.
Sounds like you have a handle on it, though, which is awesome! I'm trying to let go and entrench myself in the story of my new WIP. Some days it's easier to do that than others.
Good luck with it all!
Hi Renee!
ReplyDeleteSo you're in the lovely query process too, huh? Letting go is the hardest. I'm...trying. :)
Off to work on my new one now.
Good luck to you too!