Thursday, October 9, 2014

Writing Hiatus

So I'm drawing near the time I first started writing M2. M2 was my most serious committed project. I was committed to M1, but as I drew near the last quarter of M1 I knew it just wouldn't work out. Though I loved the story, my writing capabilities lacked the skill to push that manuscript to its full potential.

Now, I'm about halfway through M3. It has been extremely slow going and difficult to write. I have a lot of ideas about where I want M3 to go, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts clearly. M3 is loosely inspired by my time in high school in college and the friends that have come and gone and the issues we had dealt with. Thus, M3 is more of an issues/coming-of-age story which I've come to learn is harder to write than paranormal or fantasy. At least, for me it is.

Thus I am starting to miss M2 like crazy. I love this story to pieces and I want so much to go on and write the next book and the next to M2. But I know I shouldn't. If M2 ever gets picked up (and I hope it does), there would probably be major editorial changes that may change the course of the series.

So inbetween projects and wants and desires, I've found myself in a writing hiatus. Since I haven't been getting much progress on M3, I've been journaling, binge tv watching, and reading whatever I can get my hands on.

 
Despite my distractions, I feel disociated, like I've lost something. A part of me is itching to go back to M2 and tweak some more and add some scenes, but I can't decide if it would be more damaging then helpful. Alas, I will ponder on this some more and will continue to be positive about writing.
 
This will just be a small bump in the long and windy road.

6 comments:

  1. I haven't gotten much writing done either.
    But dear lord. HALF WAY THROUGH MS 3? You're kidding me. I'm on page 3 hahaha. And we both started around the same time lol. I feel...hella slow.

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    1. I'm only halfway through my first draft (aka my vomit draft), so I'm not that far in my process at all since I go through multiple drafts and revisions. So you aren't slow at all! I just have a different wrtiting process.

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  2. Halfway through? Damn, girl! That's impressive progress. I'm sure that you miss M2--since you seem to maybe have ideas for it or the urge to write more of it. M3 will come! It's not a race :-)

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    1. Only half way through my vomit draft! So not that much at all!!! I guess I should have corrected myself. You're right it's not a race, I just always beat myself up when I get into a long streak of unproductiveness -_-

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  3. Kitty! ^_^

    You know, I wonder if sometimes we need to give ourselves more downtime between projects. I know how you feel. No matter what I do, when I'm not writing, I just feel very...off, is about the only way I can put it. Still, if I jump right into another project, I can't get myself to focus. It's a very interesting place to be to say the least. You'll figure it out. I think just reading and watching TV is definitely the right thing to do in the meantime. :)

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    1. You're right. We probably should give ourselves more downtime, but like you said, not writing just makes things 'off.' I'm glad I have such kind friends that know what I'm going through ;)

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