I've climbed back on the horse after 8 months

underthecity · Oct 28, 2013

After not writing a thing in my last WIP, the completed first draft of my YA romance, for over eight months, I've finally started back on it.

I spent a long Sunday morning rewriting the first chapter into something less horrendous, and may have even come up with a satisfactory opening.

This comes after some encouragement from the Conquering Challenges forum, after not having posted here for months as my life took a few unexpected twists and turns over the past year.

Here's hoping to work on it--even if it's a paragraph at a time--at least a little each day.

And you know what? It actually felt good. I'd forgotten what it felt like to write. And to create.

Maryn · Oct 28, 2013

[Thunderous applause.] We're glad to hear it.

Maryn, who hoped for as much

Siri Kirpal · Oct 28, 2013

Sat Nam! (literally "Truth Name"--a Sikh greeting)

Good work! You can do it, you can do it, you can, you can! :banana:

Blessings,

Siri Kirpal

Phaeal · Oct 28, 2013

Welcome back and keep that attitude: A little a day, everyday. Constant movement forward tends to build momentum, until the day comes when you notice, whoa, I've got a story down here!

gingerwoman · Nov 2, 2013

That's good to hear! Congrats!

Shamisen · Nov 9, 2013

Keep at it! If you're doing it, you're DOING it! If that makes sense. I'm tired.

triceretops · Nov 9, 2013

Welcome back, UTC. I wondered where you were and what you were up to.

tri

blacbird · Nov 9, 2013

Me too.

Except the horse is dead.

caw

evilrooster · Nov 10, 2013

underthecity, that's great! Long may it run, and to interesting places!

blacbird said:
Me too.

Except the horse is dead.

caw

I had that happen once. Had it most of the way buried when the season changed and the darned thing surged up out of its grave. Ran off with me in the spring.

Hope the same happens to you.

benluby · Nov 10, 2013

underthecity, that is good to hear. I had pretty much the same thing happen. 35,000 words and I just stopped. I simply didn't have it in me anymore (I thought), due to many things in life going on.
I'm beginning the process of writing again, and cut this loose to a reader, rather than a friend who has a masters in writing and is absolutely briliant, who makes me feel like I've just stuck a part of my anatomy in a paper shredder...and the reader read it all in one day.
THAT is a great feeling. Yeah, I haven't sold it, or even tried, but to have someone devour the first draft like that is a good feeling.
If it's one sentence or one thousand paragraphs, never stop writing. I won't stop again.

AZWriter · Nov 11, 2013

I know life challenges surely take their "drain" on us all (It has for me on more occasions that I like to admit). Glad to hear you are back at it.

underthecity · Nov 14, 2013

Well, I'm trying anyway. Thank you all for the comments. Right now I'm trying to rewrite my first chapter since evidently this new version doesn't quite gel either.

I'm experiencing lots of starts and stops. Mostly stops.

I've climbed back on the horse after 8 months

underthecity

Finestkind

Maryn

Baaa!

Siri Kirpal

Swan in Process

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

gingerwoman

Shamisen

Mother of Pog!

triceretops

blacbird

evilrooster

Wicked chicken

benluby

practical experience, FTW

AZWriter

underthecity

Finestkind