Back to the Blog // Back to Reality
I'm going to begin my blog again as a companion to the writing and submitting work I am kind-of sort-of doing right now ... in an effort to move me out of the kind-of sort-of zone and more solidly into the definitely-and-making-lots-of-progress zone. Because my writing life is some kind of pie chart or line graph, obv. In January I mapped out a plan for revising the first act of my verse play and moving -- finally -- into Act II. That original map has itself been revised over the past few weeks. This is a result of that "kind-of sort-of" progress: painstakingly slow, but happening, nonetheless. I'm adding new scenes about five lines at a time (i.e. five lines per day, when those days of writing occur). It's a rather pathetic pace, I know, but at this point I'm encouraged that I have a pace. Frankly, sometimes I'm amazed that I have a pulse, let alone a pace. Work feels less intrusive to my writing time than it did last semester. I wrote so...