I love that you're working your way through The Artist's Way and that you're pleased with the new opening and the voice that's emerging! Nailing the voice is so elusive but so important. Did you see the Courtney Maum newsletter about her voice auditions for the main character of her book? https://courtneymaum.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-hold-voice-auditions
RECKONING: I managed 12 hours instead of the ten I had planned (yay!) but didn't quite get through the revision of chapter 26 (not so yay!)
ANALYSIS: This is a win. Dawn writing for a couple of hours worked well and I did twenty percent more than I planned. This morning I felt the urge to rush a pivotal scene to finish the chapter but decided that I needed another session to do it justice, so I'm giving myself that. .
RECKONING: I fell off the map the past two weeks. Turns out between prom, graduation, family in, sending my daughter off to be a camp counselor, along with other non-family things, I was completely MIA.
ANALYSIS: Clearly it was a bust on the writing front. However, I got some good reading in, which is always a good thing. I also had two classes accepted to teach in the fall (at The Loft), so that's giving me motivation to get back on track.
PLAN: My biggest writing plan this week is actually not really writing. I'm going to meditate everyday. I've been feeling down about my novel on submission and that no one's biting, so I'm going to start each writing day with a clearing or affirming meditation. Then I will also do five 10-minute micro memoirs this week and reacquaint myself with my novel and start another exercise from 3 A.M. Epiphany. (These are exercises I'm incorporating into my novel, and they came be fairly in-depth, so it's reasonable to spread them over a couple of weeks.)
You didn't fall off the map, you were living some pretty big moments of your life, my dear! Or as I put it a couple weeks ago, you were paying attention to the rest of you: https://hibou.substack.com/p/the-rest-of-you
Yay for reading and classes! And a huge yay for meditating every day. I've fallen out of my practice and want to get back into it, but I'm in the puppy vortex and my morning are dawn pee breaks and then I have a couple hours I can use for writing and--so far--I have allowed writing to goggle up that puppy dead asleep time, but I want to get back to it. Not need yet because I'm also spending time curling up with a puppy which is scrathing my brain's need for meditation right now. But even with the meditation as the priority, it sounds like you're clearing space for your writing--five micro memoirs, reacquainting yourself with your novel, and an in-depth novel exercise is not nothing!
I love that you're working your way through The Artist's Way and that you're pleased with the new opening and the voice that's emerging! Nailing the voice is so elusive but so important. Did you see the Courtney Maum newsletter about her voice auditions for the main character of her book? https://courtneymaum.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-hold-voice-auditions
CATHY’S WEEKLY RAP FOR JUNE 25, 2023
RECKONING: I managed 12 hours instead of the ten I had planned (yay!) but didn't quite get through the revision of chapter 26 (not so yay!)
ANALYSIS: This is a win. Dawn writing for a couple of hours worked well and I did twenty percent more than I planned. This morning I felt the urge to rush a pivotal scene to finish the chapter but decided that I needed another session to do it justice, so I'm giving myself that. .
PLAN: Continue morning two-hour sessions. Finish chapter 26. Start chapter 27 rough draft.
RECKONING: I fell off the map the past two weeks. Turns out between prom, graduation, family in, sending my daughter off to be a camp counselor, along with other non-family things, I was completely MIA.
ANALYSIS: Clearly it was a bust on the writing front. However, I got some good reading in, which is always a good thing. I also had two classes accepted to teach in the fall (at The Loft), so that's giving me motivation to get back on track.
PLAN: My biggest writing plan this week is actually not really writing. I'm going to meditate everyday. I've been feeling down about my novel on submission and that no one's biting, so I'm going to start each writing day with a clearing or affirming meditation. Then I will also do five 10-minute micro memoirs this week and reacquaint myself with my novel and start another exercise from 3 A.M. Epiphany. (These are exercises I'm incorporating into my novel, and they came be fairly in-depth, so it's reasonable to spread them over a couple of weeks.)
You didn't fall off the map, you were living some pretty big moments of your life, my dear! Or as I put it a couple weeks ago, you were paying attention to the rest of you: https://hibou.substack.com/p/the-rest-of-you
Yay for reading and classes! And a huge yay for meditating every day. I've fallen out of my practice and want to get back into it, but I'm in the puppy vortex and my morning are dawn pee breaks and then I have a couple hours I can use for writing and--so far--I have allowed writing to goggle up that puppy dead asleep time, but I want to get back to it. Not need yet because I'm also spending time curling up with a puppy which is scrathing my brain's need for meditation right now. But even with the meditation as the priority, it sounds like you're clearing space for your writing--five micro memoirs, reacquainting yourself with your novel, and an in-depth novel exercise is not nothing!