I am trying to get back into the routines I have set for myself. I am mostly over the cold or flu or whatever that was - just a little bit of a cough now. (I think I was terrible and shared it with J - oops!)
I did start to get myself back into the writing groove yesterday. I did not add significantly to my word count - I am up to 61,875 words as of yesterday. I did get myself out of a writing funk by going back through and fixing a gaping plot hole in the story line. I realized that it doesn't work well to want to have the main character alive at the end of the novel if he is in grave and inescapable danger early on! silly me! So I went through and changed that up - put a different character in his place and had him further away and supervising from another location. Now I do not feel like I am beating my head against a wall so much as I write, and the 2,500 words should not be so hard to achieve.
I have tackled a different sort of creativity first today before going to the writing, mostly because it takes a while to work with yeast. I have been working on making bagels! I found a good recipe online - learned that it works better to broil them for a couple of minutes on each side before you boil them, and then you can bake them without fear of shriveling bagels. I made a test batch with this recipe yesterday - cut the recipe in half just in case, but it worked well. My only complaint was that the bagels were very small. I made three varieties today - regular, brown sugar cinnamon raisin, and cheese with crushed red pepper - six of each. We will definitely have some bagels to munch on in the next little while!
Okay, I have written my 2,500 words on the novel today. It took me a while; I think I am still getting back into the groove of writing this much in day after the holidays. I also had the bagels - I made eighteen of them, and they all turned out yummy!
No comments:
Post a Comment