This weekend…
New plan. Unrealistic, and I know I’m going in with an air of defeat, but I’ve been crap recently so I need to get my arse into gear.
This weekend, I’m going write all of Chapter Three.
I finished Chapter Two ages ago, and keep meaning to get started on Three, but by the time I’ve got home from work, cooked dinner, and done whatever else I need to do (podcast, scouts, blog, etc), I can’t be arsed to write. I keep putting off those ‘20 minutes a day’ I was using till last, meaning when I get to the stage I can sit down to write, I’m too tired to care. I need to start doing those 20 minutes FIRST and the doing all the other stuff.
But yes, to kickstart this initiative, I want to write an entire chapter in a weekend. It’s only a short chapter, literally just introducing the third character (I need to stop waffling and learn there’s nothing wrong with short chapters), so it should be doable. Although I won’t be able to start until I’ve recorded the podcast tonight (3 hours gone already), washed the car, posted a few bits in town, tidied the house. Then I’ll be able to write until 6/7pm when I have friends coming over. And Sunday’s been written off by more scouting.
Figured I’d get my excuses out there first!
“I need to stop waffling and learn there’s nothing wrong with short chapters” Yeah, just look at the Da Vinci Code
Just remember, a writer writes, always!
100 points for whoever knows what film that’s from.
Not a clue. Which one?
Ironically, I went into Chapter Three, thinking ‘don’t pad it out, just write it as long as it has to be’ - and it’s the same length as the other chapters!
Well you can always go back and crop it down after you’ve/if you finished (:P). Oh, and it was Throw Momma From the Train, Danny DeVito’s hilarious Hitchcock spoof starring himself and Billy Cyrstal, and it’s got a bit about writing too.