I was out of town for the weekend, driving home on Monday afternoon. While I had great intentions to find time to write during my vacation, the dream did not match reality, and I got very little done beyond brainstorming. Not that brainstorming was bad, I did add quite a bit of ideas to my idea pool. But I had wanted to have an outline of my story this week completed by Sunday evening, and fleshed out by the end of Monday, and none of that happened.
Today, though, I dug through my idea pool, mixed my metaphors, and started picking ideas that might make for good stories for the Write-A-Thon. I had accumulated a half-dozen or so when I came across one that jumped out at me and said “this is the one.” It’s a delight when an idea does that.
An hour later I had the rough outline put together, and spent another hour or so adding meat to the bones. I’m not yet where I wanted to be by Monday evening (much less Tuesday evening), but I’m happy with progress so far. I also spent some time doing research to better ground my urban fantasy story in real life.
I’m busy this weekend as well, so three more days to get the story done. I think I’m in a good place to hit that goal.
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