Life has been busy. Oh yes. Life has been too busy to even come here and tell you about how busy life has been. That’s pretty busy!
But…I actually opened the file of Queen & Tower yesterday, and I wrote! I wrote three pages, the beginning of a scene that I realized needs to be added to chapter 1.
Sigh. Because yes, in the ever-recursive process of this rewrite, which I keep picking up and putting down and picking up and putting down…I’m having to start from the beginning again.
And I can’t even say “this time, I’ll work on it straight through till it’s done.” Because there will be interruptions–more urgent work coming in, a trip to California for Thanksgiving, whatever new emergencies life throws my way–but, I will do what I can, for as long as I can. And some day, oh some day, this book shall be finished, and you can read it.
Meanwhile, I wrote yesterday! And I am sitting down to write some more today. And that feels good.
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And I am wondering what I am going to do about fitting more regular blogging into this too-busy life. I am not at all prepared to stop blogging–it’s a much too important part of my life, the reflective part, the communicating-with-the-world part. It’s not even that I’m spending more time on other social media; I don’t have time for that either. I ignore Twitter for days on end, and post to Facebook in fits and starts. But I don’t want to be so busy that one day I look up and realize I’ve lost connection with the outside world. So, yeah. Something to work on.
But for now, to the book!