Four days in a row, I managed to get actual words in. I don’t know that the story is any good yet but today, I don’t really care. There are actual words for the first time in months and months. I’ll probably get more words this evening too. The point is less about the quality of the plot or the words right now but just that there are any words at all.
It’s not like it used to be – a couple hundred words here and there instead of multi-thousand word day. I don’t know what has changed for me (apart from that I’m really trying to do too many things at once and all of them take more time than I thought they would). There are a lot of things that feel very up in the air right now and some of that makes it difficult to plan ahead. I really like having a plan in place in every facet of my life except for my writing. It’s definitely throwing off my rhythm and has been since mid October.
Life is weird though and hard to plan for all the little nonsense. Right now, I’m just going to be happy to be writing again. And spend some time getting more words in tonight. Maybe I’ll break the 2k mark and see what trouble I can get my main character into. For right now, her name is Petra and she has a knack for painting dead people. We’ll see where it goes.