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Jul. 30th, 2007 11:50 pmSo relieved! I get a bit of a reprieve on the camping end. I'm still overnighting on Friday, but I don't have to go until then. I like camping, but I never envisioned doing something like this while figuring out plans for four small children as well. (My husband is perfectly competent, but there comes a time of day where we really need two responsible adults in the house, especially with a toddler who is a pretty dangerous climber right now, and can get through all the barricades, and who is especially climb-y when she's tired, which is around the time someone is making dinner.) So now I don't have to panic so much.
The first Monday of vacation was kind of long and shrieky (especially because the kids discovered a stash of candy left over from the pinata and breakfasted on it before we caught them), but the day ended well. The girls BEGGED me to read more of "the duck book" (RULES), and the boys joined them. My birthday boy looked up in shock when we got to the part where Catherine and her mom are in the waiting room and her mom is reading Harry Potter. He said, "Did they put a camera on us?" And after we finished the Rules chapter, we read our Harry Potter chapter (we're in the 5th book), and it was all quite lovely.
Then I got back to work on the WIP. Here's the problem: I've been hinting at some key backstory in which my MC oversteps the line between justice and outright revenge, and at some point he has to face the person he's wronged, take responsibility for his own actions, and yet not allow himself to be a victim any more (the other person is a bullying relative who made his life a corner of hades until the MC snapped). It sounds great in theory, but I still haven't solidified exactly what the MC did. So I'm freewriting that scene, which won't get into the book (pity, because the prose is going slow but strong for a first draft). And now it's midnight, and I should have been in bed an hour ago.
This is why I can't write a book in a month (even if I didn't have four kids on vacation). Words I can spin out, but why someone does something (not to mention exactly what it is they've done) takes a while to discover.
I hope the writing is going well for everyone else.
The first Monday of vacation was kind of long and shrieky (especially because the kids discovered a stash of candy left over from the pinata and breakfasted on it before we caught them), but the day ended well. The girls BEGGED me to read more of "the duck book" (RULES), and the boys joined them. My birthday boy looked up in shock when we got to the part where Catherine and her mom are in the waiting room and her mom is reading Harry Potter. He said, "Did they put a camera on us?" And after we finished the Rules chapter, we read our Harry Potter chapter (we're in the 5th book), and it was all quite lovely.
Then I got back to work on the WIP. Here's the problem: I've been hinting at some key backstory in which my MC oversteps the line between justice and outright revenge, and at some point he has to face the person he's wronged, take responsibility for his own actions, and yet not allow himself to be a victim any more (the other person is a bullying relative who made his life a corner of hades until the MC snapped). It sounds great in theory, but I still haven't solidified exactly what the MC did. So I'm freewriting that scene, which won't get into the book (pity, because the prose is going slow but strong for a first draft). And now it's midnight, and I should have been in bed an hour ago.
This is why I can't write a book in a month (even if I didn't have four kids on vacation). Words I can spin out, but why someone does something (not to mention exactly what it is they've done) takes a while to discover.
I hope the writing is going well for everyone else.
