Hello 2025! January IWSG
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| Yes, Violet. Grammie's book is a load of hooey right now. |
This month's insecurity is...
Will I ever finish this next book?
This current WIP is kicking my butt. I was feeling a bit of hope prior to the holidays. I was zipping through the first half of the story, daring to say I'd probably be ready to consider publication around March, and then BAM! I opened chapter 29 and there was the wall.
None of it made sense. It didn't even match the beginning of the book.
I moved onto the next chapter and the next...none of them made sense what-so-ever. It's as if every single chapter past #28 was just a hodge podge of whatever bull malarky my brain wanted to spew that day.
(No, I hadn't been drinking. I kinda wish I had been because at least that would've been a good excuse!)
I always tell people to forge on and write crap when they're blocked, but wow. At least make sure the crap makes some sense.
I'm not sure any of it is even usable. It would probably take more time to pick and choose the good stuff rather than trashing it all and starting the end over.
Kill a darling? Hell, this is going to be more like a mass homicide.
January 8 question - Describe someone you admired when you were a child. Did your opinion of that person change when you grew up?
There were a lot of people I respected growing up and I still respect them to this day. Just to make it interesting, I tried to think of someone I admired that I later realized was a train wreck of a human, but I can't really think of a single person. I was always a quiet kid, so I think people often forgot I was there and I'd hear a lot of truths that people still probably don't realize I'm aware of. Also, when I was young, my grandma Mary told me judge a person by how they treated those who could do nothing for them. That was the true judge of their character. That was some sage advice that I always remembered and seems to have served me well.
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