Rock N Rolling With It

Fall is in the air, and today was proof of it. We had frost last night, and Son and I just about froze at the bus stop despite wearing our spring/fall jackets.

It was still rather crisp at 10 a.m., when I decided to get myself offline, get my favorite hoodie on, dig out the old MP3 player and get outside for a bit. I wanted to capture some of the fall foliage with the camera, so it turned into a walk down to the stream and back, about 10 minutes each way.

It's not very colorful down this way. Our summer came late, so did the warmer weather, and things have been thrown way off. We do have some colors this year, but things are either still green or going straight to brown for the most part.

Some of the plants growing alongside of the road are brighter than the trees this year so far...

But that's okay. I still got out of the house for a bit, reset my brain from "online mode" to "offline/relaxing mode" and enjoyed the crisp, sweet smelling air.

This gorgeous flower is in full bloom, down by the stream. I saw it and couldn't help taking photos of it...

I was so invigorated when I got into the house, that I opened up the windows, and booted up Word. I was planning on working on the rest of the supporting cast and other names today, but things got a little... weird....

It seems that I'm not completely burned out as an author after all. It took seven months of being ill, stressed out, and other things, but I'm finally over that hump and back into things.. I hope.

Yes, the drought seems to be over finally... "Thirteen" officially has a main manuscript file, and there is one complete scene in it, the opener.... And the second one was started.

I don't remember much about the time I was writing that first scene. It's a bit of a blur... But it looks okay for an ultra rough draft so far, and it is within what I wanted for it... I may add or remove stuff from it over time, but that's normal. I got its rough draft started and hopefully something will come out of this, I do not want this to be just a trickle and stop again... I want to keep writing.

It felt awesome to be writing again, even if it was only 600 words. It's better than nothing, right?

At this point, I think I have most of the main players picked out... I have a few other things to create and name, but I can do that once I'm a little more into this one. I just hope some of my pals are up to brainstorming names for different things with me when the time is right...

I did get a few things done with some of the character bios, notably the leading male and some of the supporting cast even though writing took over the research and setting personality traits and so forth.

If I can get 500 words once a week, I'm going to be happy... Anything is better than not writing!!

Have a great weekend everyone, and if you are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving, have a wonderful and safe holiday and long weekend!

"Jigsaw Puzzles and Tons of Coffee"...

Finally, a full day to work on my writing has come and gone again and I find myself getting closer and closer to finishing draft #1, even though there is still a lot of stuff to add to it at this point. 
I haven't done a lot of writing the last couple of weeks due to March break and both of the guys being around a lot, but I was still working on things for Untitled #7, stuff I can easily do while the guys were watching TV, when my son was drumming or if my husband was talking. I've been doing research on a lot of the towns, etc that I will be mentioning in the story and I've also driven around to different spots like Lunenburg and Liverpool, getting pictures and gathering as much information that I can for adding to Untitled #7. Anyone who has my main profile on their Facebook friends list can see pics of places like Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Blue Rocks, etc and those are the same pictures I am using as references to describe those towns, etc. I do have more "information gathering" trips planned for the future and will be updating y'all on those as time goes on.
Today was pretty productive. Since I hadn't had a lot of chances for rereads, etc, I reread the entire main manuscript file from start to finish, making changes/editing things here and there and adding things in to spots that needed a little more while taking some things out that wasn't relevant to the story itself.
I am now in the final stages of closing that gap between where the Main manuscript links up with the MMLTG file, and although I did kind of jump the gun again and spliced it in already, I caught it right away and am now filling in that gap with a few things that are very relevant to how the story progresses.
After I am finished that, and I hope to be sometime tonight or over the weekend, I will be editing what was the MMLTG file to "fit" how the story has progressed to that point in the main manuscript file. The way I write is something like a jigsaw puzzle... I write up different parts and "put" them together, making sure everything flows smoothly between each part and making sure everything lines up with what has gone down before each part as well as what comes afterwards in the storyline. Sometimes it's a hard thing to do but most of the time, this way of writing works for me... I find I get very confused and frustrated if I try writing something from start to finish and will lose ideas for scenes if I don't write them up when I think of them!
I'm not sure on today's word count... I had added so much stuff in, taken a lot out and have switched so many things around that it is almost impossible to find out. I do know it's well up over 2000 words, if not closer to 3000, and that's the stuff that was added AFTER I had made some changes, did some editing, etc!!! I do know the page count jumped from about 45, 46 pages to close to 70 with the new material and the MMLTG file added in (even though it was too early to do that yet! *grumble!!*)
Productive day or what? I'm going to try to stay up late and see if I can wrap up closing that blasted gap and finally get to where the MMLTG file is SUPPOSED to go in the main manuscript. I want this DONE before the weekend is over, so I'm ready for the next full day writing marathon, and so I can edit the MMLTG file to fit the story perfectly!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
~Veridian~