I’m done. And actually, I’ve been done for days. After a stunning jump of nearly 26,000 words in three days, I’m tired. I’m burned-out, actually. Sad to say, I don’t really care about the book or the characters that much. I think it is a bad sign that I can’t really remember the names of my characters that much, other than remembering what the first letters of their names happen to be.
I think this is good for me, to realize that I should care more about the material, more about the characters. It was hard, but I also proved to myself that I can crank out a lot of words in a short amount of time. That last day, I had at least 14,000 words to go and I proved that I could do it. Starting by 9am, I cranked out a pile of words. By noon, I had 4,000 down and 10,000 to go. By 5pm (including a two hour break to refresh the creative juices), I had another 5,000 down and 5,000 left. By 8:30pm, I had 50,150 words and validated. After working out the problems of formatting which lopped off nearly 2,000 words
Sad though, that I haven’t really felt like writing too much since. However, I have thought about some other work, something that is going to mean more to me. I want to take time with my next book. I’m not sure what it will be. Maybe a memior, maybe it will be parody. It would be fun to be parody, but I’m not sure I can seperate my thoughtfullness out of it. I heard a young girl read her fantasy parody and was impressed with her style. It also made me realize that I have a long way to go on that track. It seemed like she was able to write that so easily, so effortlessly. Made me wish I could do the same.
Anyway, I will get back to writing more thoughts here. I’ve missed blogging.
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