It is 12:12 AM local time as I write this post. Not exactly daily but at least it's a prompt post. Right?
Today, I started the day opening a new file to restart the current project. Luckily for me I didn't have to change too much. Can you imagine working along and getting 17,000 words into a novel and realizing that you're going to run out of story before you even get to the nitty-gritty (meaning here, the relationship between the hero and heroine)?
So, I closed that file (saving each and every horrible word) and opened new and started over. I think I've mentioned before that I have a friend who calls this "obssessing". Yes, I admit I do obssess. I want everything to be just so in my writing. If it's not, it bothers me to no end.
But there's always a light in that depressing darkness when I learn that what I've just spent the past few days working on is garbage. I learn that the next attempt is even better. Why is this better? Because my heroine is much stronger and more sure of herself. She isn't going to do anything she doesn't want to do. She's also not going to cower when the antagonist challenges her. She's going to go in headlong with both guns blazing, so to speak.
My hero is less troubled. In the scrapped story, he was so troubled he was a prime candidate for a rubber room. This time he's only under a lot of pressure. But nothing a man like him can't handle.
But alas, it's time to close so I can write a little while longer before I head off to dreamland.
