Well, I've done something crazy with the novel I have been writing. I set it all aside and decided I needed to rework it. I sat down with J and went back through what we had originally talked about for the plot and story line, and I realized that with my funky memory, I managed to mixed things up and get myself very much on a tangent. So I am doing a literary u-turn now and getting things straight again. I went through and wrote down the main points of the story in an outline format, and I still have the notes from before to help keep me straight too. But now I have about five thousand words written instead of sixty thousand. I feel good about it, though. This will help me keep the story straight better, and if nothing else, when I was writing the flub/first draft, I did succeed in getting to know the characters better. I am trying to get at least a thousand words a day written during the week, so about five thousand words per week. I have been running around and doing errands a lot today, so I have procrastinated the writing. Maybe I am blogging to help motivate myself to write - self-guilt-trip! At any rate, it is coming along, even with a big old u-turn as a part of the process.