In the past two and a half months a lot has happened. I've discovered that I had writer's block with book three of my series (shocker!), I have four weddings to go to this summer and only two of them are in the same month, the car I currently drive might not remain my car, my brother trusts me with his son for a whole day, my sister is spending her semester in Philly and I am definitely not a city person, and I can work really well with clay if I give myself time. There's plenty more I'm sure, but that's all that's coming to mind at the moment.
Really I just felt that it was about time to update this. So here I am, updating.
Writing a series is hard. Y'know, I always thought that it would just fly from me. Images would become words and those words would suddenly become a book. Just like magic. And then I started to try to write and that didn't happen. I had these idealistic thoughts that somehow this would be easy.
Boy was I wrong.
I haven't had writer's block since the first book. Not that it was that long ago. Well...maybe it was. Let me think. I wrote my first book back when I was a freshman in college, back at BCCC. I think it was my sophomore year when I was actually done with the draft - that Christmas. So it's been three years since I wrote a novel. And I've spent three years thinking through everything. And that was evident in book two. Things just flowed perfectly from my brain to the computer. I don't know how that happened.
Anyway, so I'm kind of stumped. National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO), is coming up in November. In a perfect world - at least if it's God's will - I'll write the skeleton draft of my third book in that month. That would require me to stick to the 'write a chapter a night' routine. Is that possible? I guess I have some praying to do.
For now, I'll just keep plugging away and listening for what God has to say. His plans are first and foremost. Whatever I think is irrelevant if He's got something bigger and better planned. That's one of the nice things about a Heavenly Father who desires to do good for me. I'm such a lucky Daughter.
