After months of struggle and doubt and false starts and creative cul-de-sacs, at last I’m back on track with Kindred Spirit - yay!!!
I was going to crap on about all the problems but I figure, who cares? I’d rather talk about the solutions, the strategies that got me over the hurdles.
Spent time lurking on Vision Writers and heard about yWriter, software developed by a writer (Simon Haynes) with a problem I recognised - an amorphous mass of wordage, a desperate need to redraft and restructure, and no idea where to start. That put me on the trail.
Next I stumbled across the Snowflake method of writing novels, as promoted by Randy Ingermanson. I’ve been steadily working my way through, replanning and rediscovering what my novel is really about. And without losing any of the good stuff!
Then I figured out a way to finally prioritise writing and keep my job at the same time, which is a miracle on the water to wine scale.
And as a result of all this, I’m excited, energised and enthusiastic about the manuscript again, something I was beginning to think was lost. So what on earth am I doing, sitting here blogging about it????
Back soon with a progress report.
