I Am Tired
As I posted on Pop Culture Curmudgeon earlier this week, I attended a teambuilding ropes course on Monday for my day job. It kicked my ass, and I’ve been sore and exhausted ever since.
I also had some trouble with the power supply for my laptop, so it was also exhausted. I don’t know if it was sore–I like to keep our relationship strictly professional.
After getting a replacement cord from HP (in record time, I might add) and marshaling a little energy last night, I completed another revision of my short story and submitted it to the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Contest.
As I wrote this story, it turned from a self-contained piece into what will probably be the first chapter of my first novel. I started the story with one idea about what it was going to be and who the characters were, but it did a complete 180 while writing. Motivations changed, things happened that I never would have foreseen, the genre even shifted–it could have been chaos. I feel like I created a strong and interesting story in the horror genre (!), so that is the category in which I entered it.
I also learned that I need an outline for longer projects. My seat of the pants process worked with this short story, but it would kill a novel or even a novella. So, my task for tonight after work is to create a rough outline for my novel. (A week ago, I didn’t think I was ready to even attempt a novel.) I simply have to capture all of the ideas flowing through my head before I lose them.
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