seeing how i have grown

I started out today working on the rough draft of the novel.  I got 2,500 words written today - accomplished my goal there.  Things were flowing decently well.  I feel like I have an idea of where I want to go with the writing tomorrow.  After I finished the rough draft, I turned to typing up the nonfiction piece I am revising.  I got 2,500 words typed up on it as well.  Typing it back up leaves me amazed at how much I have grown as a writer.  I don't remember for sure how long ago I wrote that piece, but I can see loose spots that need tightening and empty spots that need something more.  Looking at it now, I can see why that manuscript got rejected by the publisher.  It was the best I could do at the time, but it really was not up to snuff.  I am starting to think about how I want to revise it.  I know I have a lot of work to do there.  I have ideas of what I want to do, but for now I focusing on re-familiarizing myself with the piece.  It has been a few years since I have worked on it.  Something random that I have noticed in working so much more on writing is that my forearms are getting sore.  I think all of the extra typing is doing a number on them!  So far, it just feels like muscle soreness.  I don't want to fiddle with tendonitis or anything like that!

In a way, it is reassuring to go back through an old piece of writing and see how much I have progressed.  I have a lot of work to do if I want to resubmit that piece for publication, but I will work on it little by little.  I will get there.  The biggest thing I have noticed so far is that it sounds really preachy.  I want to make it more personable and real, less preachy.  I will work on that.

My other major project of the day had absolutely nothing to do with creativity.  It was joy in the form of bathroom cleaning today.  Still, when you are working on a mundane task, you give your brain a chance to simmer like a crock pot, developing the ideas you have rolling around in there.  We'll see how the ideas in my  head turn out when this batch of brain crock pot switches to warm, I guess!