Things That I Can Never Explain
I'm working on the novel. But it is very slow going and I find that the harder I focus on the story the slower things get. I've tried just "free writing" writing down anything that comes to my mind about the story, but it irritates me that I can't make it come together.
So, terribly, I've been letting myself write other things. Well, actually I've become slightly obsessed with creating a story set just for this site and while, apparently, trying desperately not to work on the novel, I've actually come up with an idea that seems to flow for me.
In actuality this story and my novel are based on the same idea. This story is just a little less "speculative fiction" and more mainstream romantic/drama fiction. The characters are no less problematic, but with this story I'm not concerned at all with any specific difficulties, either story wise or character wise. I made the decision that I could never actually turn this story into a novel (or any other kind of salable product). I could never explain exactly why. (Thus the title of this post.)
Another thing about this story is that it will be barely, if ever, edited. So, none of you write me long comments or e-mails about how the grammar or tense or punctuation is terrible. It will be terrible, very likely. The point to it even being here is that when I can not write anything else I will be (should be) able to write a page or two for this story without having to worry about editing or where a comma needs to go (or whether I mean your or you're).
The name of the set is Scenes From Her Life and the one concession that I will make to some sort of rule is that I will try to keep the scenes in consecutive order. So, anyone trying to, should be able to follow along. (The first Scene is titled First, the second will be Second and so on to infinity-- or til I go crazy and throw this freaking computer thru the window.) I'll be trying to use WordPress tools to keep the site from getting wildly cluttered. So, of course, things may be wildly cluttered (or worse) until I get everything figured out.
So, finally some sort of regular content on this site. I'm a little busy with other things to even think about adding anything more. (I mean, really, who decided NaNoWriMo should be in November. Freaking Thanksgiving takes days of my life, not to mention the run up to the holidays.)
The first page(s) should be up in the next few hours and I may have more if I can't rethink the religious ideas in the novel. (Yes. That's what I'm working on right now and it's driving me up the wall. I'd take it out entirely, but the whole thing is basically about something that happened to one of the characters that might have been an Act of God.)
This post turned out to be about ten times longer than I intended it to be, so I'll go now and see about handling everything else. Good bye.
