03 Jul Just Like Riding a Bike
After a long absence, today I was back in my contemporary YA manuscript. Since I got the greenlight to continue almost two weeks, I was so nervous that I’d open the word doc and no longer be able to render these characters that are so clear and finished in my head. Turns out, it was just like riding a bike.
It has been a few months since I was in it, while my attention was back on Crip Up the Kitchen (CUTK) and while I waited for the go ahead to finish. And by a few, the last time I worked on it was in January when a chapter I was worried about finally finished itself in my head. I needed to get the solution out of me because I was stressing that I would forget it in the months of CUTK PR. It was the only chapter that wasn’t already written in my head. And before that, the last time I worked on it was before I signed with my agent at the end of November. That is when I put a pin in it until I got the go ahead to finish. Publishing is a slow timeline, to say the least.
I have a self-imposed deadline to get it finished for my agent to read by the end of the month. I have the next three weeks to download the remaining chapters from my brain and them into a word doc. Then one week to do some quick polishing before handing it in. I’m a “get it right” writer and do a pretty decent job at it, so I’m not worried about such a tight timeline to finish the final third of the book.
Today, I wrote one chapter that ended up being just over 2000 words. A couple lines from it really tickle me.
I have decided to take a page out of the weekly write-is my agent hosts on YouTube and do them in 20-minute writing sprints, followed my 10-minute breaks. Even though I hate to be interrupted when I’m in the middle of a thought and usually write until I drop from fatigue and hunger, I’m trying a healthier approach. Let see what happens when I eat and use the washroom before my body is hangry and my bladder is about to burst.
Day one was a success. I’m not one for needing someone to keep me accountable while I work, but I do wish I had someone in an on-going chat to celebrate with once I finish milestones. It is something I enjoy about my writing group that I never thought I’d enjoy, and I miss it when absent.
When I emerged from my day of writing, I learned that TweetDeck is going paid in 30 days. So, that truly is the end of Twitter for me. Free TweetDeck was the only thing keeping me there. Which sucks, to say the least. I have very complicated feelings about the end of Twitter.
I won’t be deleting my main account or any of the other accounts I manage, but I won’t be using it anymore. I may still do automated tweets to the Disabled Kitchen and Garden account, but I won’t be responding to tweets. I also need to download the archive of my wedding account before my 10-year anniversary on Thursday.
So, that was my day. How was yours?
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