This week has been a mixed bag of productivity and laziness. I definitely didn't get as much as I wanted done but what I did get done I'm very happy with. I'm writing a novel with my Dad and he stayed with me this past week. We're trying to get our first draft done by the end of the summer but we ran into some unexpected problems:
1. Writing a novel with two people is a lot harder than we thought (particularly when one of us is an outliner and the other one is a discovery writer.... it's me, I'll own that). My solution to plot knots is just to keep writing and deleting and writing and deleting... my Dad's is to actually plan out the story which I find eats at my motivation. On the other hand, I don't get hung up on little stuff like character names and so I like to think I get us through the small details that might not be important right this second (in my humble unpublished opinion). I think that we are a good writing combo because we can push each other through the parts that are unpleasant for the other.
What we didn't realize is that there is a lot of things you need to discuss which makes the process slow down -- What tense are we writing in? What person are we writing in? What timeline do we want? And the worst part is these things aren't evident until one person has written a chunk of story in third person past tense and the other has written their chunk in first person present.
2. Trying to fix plot problems is difficult to do over the phone. Especially when we are each working off our half of the manuscript the parts of the story
We made a lot of really good progress after putting it on the back burner for awhile and I am excited to get back to writing it ( a month and a bit to go on our deadline and I think we might just make it!).
I am giving myself a pat on the back for continuing to work on the web series. Still no progress on the podcast or my summer reading list or my micro fiction anthology or any of the other stuff I said I wanted to do over the summer but I'm happy that I am getting closer to actually completing goals!
Week 3 is down for the count!
See you next week :)
-Mack
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