So all the stages of revision (the big three) got done and in the process of the last one I realized that I’d lost something somewhere…cut & didn’t paste, and since I’d chosen “cut” the something was long gone lost.\u00a0 I’d have to write it again.\u00a0 Which I did one day this past week and I like it better than the first version.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I went on with the spit-polishing of the surface and finished that Friday.\u00a0 Yesterday morning, Saturday, I was primed for a day of loafing–or at least working on other things like having actual *space* in the study, nothing on the floor (!!!) instead of the Useful Books now there, along with the many not-useful things.<\/p>\n
But wait!\u00a0 Something was stirring.\u00a0 Something had hold of my brain and was yanking at me.\u00a0 “Come here!\u00a0 Don’t do that!\u00a0 Come HERE and sit DOWN and put fingers on the keyboard and get going!!!”<\/p>\n
And out came…the start of NewBook II or Horngard II.\u00a0\u00a0 “But, but, but,” I stammered.\u00a0 “I have other things to do!\u00a0 I need to go do this, and go do that, and go do the other thing, lots of things have gone undone since I started NewBook I!”<\/p>\n
And the book said “Nonsense.\u00a0 Keep going.”\u00a0 Ten pages later that was it for the day.<\/p>\n
It’s not even noon yet and another ten pages has appeared in the file.<\/p>\n
“But I have to do these things…”<\/p>\n
“No, you don’t.\u00a0 Shut up, quit arguing, and get going…this train is leaving the station, toot-toot-toot, and you’d better be on it or be sorry.”<\/p>\n
“But I haven’t heard back from my agent, and shouldn’t I wait until…?”<\/p>\n
“NO!”<\/p>\n
“But there’s a weather change and it might finally rain and I need to spread seed, and…”<\/p>\n
“NO!”<\/p>\n
You know what’s really, really, really fun…is the feel of being on a fast-moving book with the story pouring into your head and out through your fingers.\u00a0 Even if you’re eating unhealthy food, your neck hurts, your finger joints are beginning to burn, one leg’s going to sleep…it’s really, really fun to have live characters doing their thing right there in front of you, and the book’s\u00a0 plot daemon prodding you in the ribs: “Hurry up!\u00a0 Get that bit—right there–that’s good, keep going, don’t stop, yeah!!!”<\/p>\n
I do have to go feed horses their lunch, even if the book’s hollering at me.\u00a0 I’ll be back.\u00a0 How many pages today?\u00a0 I have no idea.\u00a0 What’s going to happen?\u00a0 I have no idea except that I’ll be spending time in this chair and more Story will be in the file. and I’ll be grinning at times and tapping my foot and thinking how very lucky I am in some back corner of my mind while the rest is occupied playing all the instruments in the orchestra at once.\u00a0 Hooyah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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