Just stopping in to offer a brief update on “where things are at.” New installments are upcoming. I’d like to say “shortly”, but that would make me a big, fat, liarhead. Could be a couple days, could be a week or so. Shifting a plotline is a “thing” for me. I obsess about the transition and, for some reason, can’t just let it spill for a later cleanup. Not how my brain works. What comes up will be clunky, but it will contain all of the “points” I need for the day the “cleanup” is necessary. While what comes next might not be there when a first edit– gutting and hosing out– is done, all of the reference points (I believe) that are necessary to move the story along and to make sense will be there, either flagrantly in text, or subtly in context.
Also, my brain was getting full. In my modus operandi, this means all that’s come before– down on paper, so to speak– is standing in the way of what should be the next step. It means I was getting tired, and going back over all accomplished so far seems easier that “just getting on with it.” It’s a peccadillo.
All above are just referring to the “process.” It’s an individual thing. Anybody else might– probably– works on such a project in a different manner. Whatever works is the only thing you need to tell yourself. Shifting the focus of this blog is just one aspect of it. Sticking what you worked on for a day, a week, a month and throwing it out there works for me. Keeps me focused, motivated and all that crap.
Anyway. The gears are meshing again. The next bits are getting put together and will be up…. whenever….