Tuesday Writer's Wrap

I was going to start the post with the header 'Monday Writer's Wrap' which probably gives a clue of where my head is, given it's already Tuesday here. Buried deep in my writing with very few spare coherent thoughts for anything else!

For those who celebrated Easter I hope it was a meaningful and wonderful time for you. I spent time with my family and when not with them, at my desk writing. Somehow I managed to be very restrained about chocolate purchases. A small Lindt bunny for the dh and me. No one else wanted chocolate at all - so they got cash to spend on something they would enjoy. I caved in on the Thursday and made one impulse buy. A small packet of plain chocolate eggs. Those are stashed away in a drawer but overall I think I did well. I love the annual chocolate Easter bunny joke that does the rounds. You can see it on my friend Bronwyn Jameson's blog.

I mentioned on here earlier that I had started a story, and then I mentioned I was working on a trilogy project with Fiona Harper and Melissa McClone. So the story I had started has been shelved for now and I will go back to it once this one is done and dusted. I've gone ahead with my cork board plans. I have the story plan printed out and on the board. It's a loose idea. Already I've added bits and shuffled bits and come up with new/better/different bits, but it gives me an overall view of generally where I want to go and so far with this story it seems to be working well for me.

I haven't collaged, per se. I've pinned some meaningful pictures onto one end of the second cork board and i'm feeling really good with those images. Much better than when I collaged 'properly' last time and then didn't like it when not all the images ended up finding a meaning in the story. I'm about 80 pages into the story and trying to keep my pace up.

The thing I haven't done is print out each day's work and read it over, make pencil changes, and type those back in before starting again the next day. I don't feel there's time to do this really, though it's a good, good idea. Maybe I could print out a bunch of pages each weekend and work on them then?

Jennie