Productive

Disappointed by the Oscars. Again. 

Anywhoo, I spent the majority of my weekend trying to work out kinks in my writing.  One character that I’ve struggled with for a long time and couldn’t figure out why – I discovered that she lacks a visible motivation and that makes it difficult for me to write her. 

In fact, I realized that although I thought I knew what she wanted – I don’t know how to portray that without her looking, well, spacey or somewhat stupid.  Very discouraging.  I cannot seem to make it translate to the page correctly, which makes me wonder if I wont have to go back to the drawing board on her – or worse – do away with her altogether.

Crap. She was one of my favorites.

Then again, if your characters don’t play well together something needs to be fixed, and she’s the weak link in every chapter.

On a different note, I have a short erotic story almost ready to go. YAY! Indigo introduced me to a local photographer who wants to do erotic pictures to go with some of my short works. I thought that’d be a cool idea so a started a few with the idea that they can have pictures that will help tell the story rather than just be superfluous images. Hopefully we’ll be starting that project by summer.

All in all, even though I didn’t get much actual writing done, I paced a hole in the floor and worked out a lot of background, world building and character kinks.  Drank far too much coffee and scribbled lots of notes.  Even though there isn’t a word count – I fell asleep last night feeling like I’d conquered a massive stack of writing to-do’s.  Exhausted.

Sometimes those are the most productive days.