Archive for December 6th, 2006
The day…
Posted by Jeff Evans in General, Jenn, Projects on December 6, 2006
Thankfully, as far as work is concerned, the day is mercifully almost over – it has been a busy day with one person out (constant streams of phone calls). So, from that vantage, the day is coming to that blessed end – five o’clock! The catch, and what is almost depressing is that is IS almost five, which means the day has flown by and the writing (on a computer) time is almost gone…
Yeah, yeah… I have a computer at home that is perfectly fine for writing, but I also have animals and other projects clambering for attention… so most of my writing (before I get home) will be of the “long-hand” variety, only to be typed in later…
I’ve found that my fingers can move almost (not nearly, but almost) as fast as I can think when I am on a roll… and my hands, when pushing a pen, move a bit slower than that… A writer’s curse, I guess, that we sometimes think faster than words can be put down…
But it has been a day… I am thankful that the “work” hours are over, but sad that I have not been able to get much written here today…
I recently finished “The Body” (from Stephen King’s Different Seasons, and premise for the movie Stand by Me) and have not started the next story yet, so I wil likely try to spend some time tonight (while Jenn is working with her horse) working on both story notes and some more exposition in the novel… I think one point that scared me about the novel writing is that during the outline that I drafted, I could easily see a fairly long work… with the primary story arc, I have potentially designed a 6-700 word monster (granted, before editing and refinement… but words can easily be ADDED as well as removed during editing, or just plain traded almost evenly)… I’ve now cleared about 8 pages (single spaced – and for continuity, I plan on only listing “single spaced” numbers, or will note if using another spacing for the count). I look forward to pushing myself towards the 75-100 page range as my first big target hurdle…
But for now, the day is slowly drifting into the night, and I must get ready to drift home…