I am obsessed with Andersen’s The Snow Queen and have been working on a Snow Queen project for what feels like decades now (really more like five years).
I’m going to do a series of posts on various aspects that hopefully will not ruin my own writing process. There is always the worry of talking too much about something…
Over at the Wiffer boards, some of us are racing (ourselves not each other) to finish up our novels before the June Storywonk classes begin. I was just plugging away and in a total comfort zone when suddenly I realized that what I was writing wasn’t working at all.
Just keep pushing on, I said through gritted teeth. My black cat is staring back at me, waiting to see if I leave so he can take my seat. Hmm. Maybe I need some tea. Tea is magic. Score for the cat.
You’d be amazed (or maybe you wouldn’t?) by how much time one can waste while brewing a cup of tea. It’s an art. A sad, sorry sort of art.
I can’t let myself start over, especially since I reworked it last weekend and culled over 15,000 words. Going back is not allowed. Period.
A word count meter is a good way of showing accountability. Not sure if I’ll keep using this one since it’s kind of enormous, but I like the mood settings. Maybe I could just jot a mood down after each update. That might work as well.
A journey.
