Editing and Dreaming
I’ve been starting the editing process and have really been enjoying it! Much to my surprise. I think I was dreading this part of the process and unsure of how to approach it really. I had done some initial research into how to format a book a while back and my partner had mentioned that there's software that will help you keep track of characters and such. I of course, immediately hated this concept and didn’t want to even look at it as an option. I’m more of a paper and pen kind of gal. My idea was to print it out and work on it the way I’ve edited anything else in the past - which is to spread it all out on the floor around me and go to work. Which, I had actually been looking forward to in a way. Less the full process, but more the feeling of flow I can get in when working that way. And something I haven’t done in many years.
First draft and book title!
I finished the first draft today! I’m so thrilled to have actually made it this far, after so many years of thinking and working towards it. I first started writing this in the fall of 2019, but it had been a much longer time that I had been thinking about it and forming the idea for the overarching story somewhere in the back recesses of my mind. When I was in college - some many years before this - I had originally thought this would be a graphic novel.
New Year - New Intention
I woke up yesterday morning feeling frustrated at myself for sleeping in and struggling with what it feels like to rest. I meditate every morning and decided to try and explore that feeling and see where it would take me. What I ended up deciding was that instead of shaming myself for this feeling - this year my purpose would be to rest. That might sound counter intuitive for someone trying to finish and launch a book, but the reality is that I put every ounce of creative energy into many other things in my life. Very few of which are how I actually want to spend that energy.