January

Hey

I've been away for a while. A lot of things have happened within the few months I've been quiet. The short and long of it is that I have become a statistic, one of the vast number of people who are unemployed this year. Only I hope to rectify that problem soon, while working on several writings this year. Luckily for me, I will not be "unemployed" for much longer, needless to say I can head myself under the "student" banner and hope that stops all untoward questions about where I may or may not work. Hopefully.

As this is both a personal and writing blog, don't expect writing things all the time -- I'll learn from my mistakes, just as  the average person would.

Obviously I'm having a little trouble on the writing front. I've gone past 10k on my work in progress, and thusly am having trouble (I just like the word thusly, whether it is in correct grammatical use or not). I figure that this might be because of the size of the beast. I think that there might be a mental block preventing me from writing the romance between Detective Cameron Gage and his lovely love interest, Elliot Moss. Even though Elliot is a male name, I prefer it for use as a  female name, having borrowed it from Scrubs. I do watch television, just not often. Haha.

Once I figure out what this block entails, I will do my best to work past it. Part of it belongs to the fact that I know further back in the depths of the wip, I have never wrote this far and still found myself floundering about in the beginning of the novel. Its new territory for me. Usually the beginning is over by oh, 5 - 6k words, then I'm in the arms of the middle. Which goes to show that the middle might arrive by the time I get my head around the fact that I really hate chapter six, and am considering revising it now out of pure spite.

This will take the word count down, but enevitably I can still save the words in another word document, which will mean that I can access the general idea of what I want to do in a later chapter. Perhaps I have started later plot points too early, and have made things much worse without thinking it through properly. I had intended for chapter six to happen later, and mugging my character really didn't help thicken the plot. So with that reasoning in mind, I'll take it out.

I suppose all that remains is to figure out the cause of this block. Hopefully taking out chapter six doesn't do too much to the wip and doesn't rewind the wordcount too far, but an update to this blog will determine what's going on, why, how, and when Elliot and Gage will finally fall in love and put their differences aside, while trying not to get themselves killed. :D