I
remember my March IWSG (not ISWG (;) where I boldly announced I'd get my edits
finished before the A-Z challenge in April.
HA!
Jokes on me
because it's almost mid-June and guess what? I'm still doing edits. For the
whole month of April and May I didn't touch my wip. I know, how scandalous of
me. Bad, bad writer! By the end of May, I found the more I ignored my wip, the
easier it was to ignore, make up excuses, procrastinate, and feel even more
insecure about it--until last weekend.
A good friend of mine is an
artist. She paints using different kinds of medium and it's amazing how talented
she is. Anyway, she was leaving town with her family for the weekend and she
offered her house up to me as my very own writer's cave for a whole day. That
meant a whole day of uninterrupted writing, no distractions, no telephone, no
internet, no little people, no big people, no pets, no gardening, no laundry,
no cooking, no housework--just hours and hours of writing. I scrambled to get
myself organized on the home front then packed my stuff up that morning, and
spent the day at her house. It turned out to be an amazing day and one of the
best gifts I've received in a long time. But what's even better is that I
made real progress with my wip and edits. Don't get me wrong, I'm still
suffering through them, but I can see the finish line and guess what? I fell in
love with the story all over again. Having that amount of alone time with my
wip rekindled a spark that I hadn't felt in a while.
So my point with
today's post is this: sometimes, all it takes is a change of scenery and a few uninterrupted
hours with your wip to have a breakthrough that'll bring you closer to the
finish line.
