Okay, so I haven't written anything today. I've barely even done my homework, which is generally a sign of a Busy Girl because I am rabid about homework. Writing was replaced by Xboxing, meeting Boyfriend's grandparents and trying to talk to his mum, who I'm fairly certain thinks I'm the devil trying to corrupt her godly little boy (who by the way is two years older than me) and having not one, but TWO soccer practices. Which was exhausting and slightly painful.
(Don't be fooled into thinking I'm athletic. I'm not. In soccer you can get away with violence, and kick things. It's a great game.)
Ernest Hemingway says that any game you couldn't die during wasn't a sport. Considered how I felt after TWO practices, I'd say he would have called it a sport.
Though I haven't written anything, I have been doing thinking, which helps. Since I'm changing the plot pretty dramatically--let's face it I'm writing a whole new book, for some fucking reason--I've been thinking about who my characters are now and how they're going to be different. I'll have to get to know some of them all over again.
Not all of them, though. I'm only drastically changing one character--Jill--and that's not even guaranteed, and swapping one character (Owen) for another (Danny). Everyone else is pretty much staying the same except for Evy, who is going to change no matter what. She's my heroine, and heroines in my stories always end up reflecting me in some way. Usually I'm trying to express something through a story, so my heroines are always gritty short girls with issues. Like me!
So, my concern is that I'll write a bunch of stuff, then have to get rid of it, because it was all just me trying to get to know my new kids. Which might suck. Sigh.
I'm going to play more Xbox. I'm determined to actually DO something when I'm bored, instead of do things that require no energy and give me fast-action satisfaction, which I'm thinking it turning out to be pretty unhealthy for me.
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