Writing Update Tuesday! This week I’ve spent the bulk of my writing efforts transferring my story from google docs to Scrivener and organizing scenes and notes. Scrivener is great so far, by the way, highly recommend. I’m able to lay out my scenes at a high level and organize them into chapters, something I wasn’t doing in google docs.
Last night I spent some time outlining the rest of the chapters. I’m looking at close to thirty total. I have thirteen mostly written. And about another four or five chapters worth of completed floating scenes. Roughly I’m about two-thirds done with this draft? We’ll see where I end up to know for sure.
Lin, my friend and writing accountability buddy, and I talked timeline when we saw each other last week. Their goal is to have a finished shitty first draft (SFD) my mid-May, let it simmer for a few weeks, and then spend the summer rewriting and editing. I’ve decided to hop on that schedule with them.
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.
Anne Lamott
I’m going to set SFD deadline as May 10th. Hard swallow. I better start increasing my daily output.
I’ve still kept up recording the last sentence I’ve written every day. Here’s my collection from this past week:
- 4/2: Luke pointedly looks at the backpack and ginger ale I’ve left on the floor.
- 4/3: It’s doesn’t make sense why I should feel queasy again when I see him reading it, yet I feel as though he’s rifling through my mother’s letters rather than skimming our grocery list.
- 4/4: I don’t need the ice in my stomach to know I’ve made a mistake.
- 4/5: I’ll introduce you to Cat.
- 4/6: Please.
- 4/7: You know we can’t.
- 4/8: We both breathe out at the same time.
With Love,
Natalie