What I was doing was… Back in the studio (the living room of my flat) today, playing and developing some more scenes for this solo play. I listened to tunes and danced then picked a random scene to work on, painted a box and eventually wrote a couple of scenes. When I first picked the scene to work on I got a bit stressed because of couldn’t think of anything
What I was doing was… Today I was beginning to write the first draft of the solo play I have been working on. I printed out the story moments I’d written before, gave them to some Lego friends to hand me as random prompts, then worked on the first one I picked by playing guitar, making it snow on my wallet then talking to myself until I’d scribbled out a
What I was doing was… Morning pages today with the old novel writing. 398 more words, in a fizzy 15 minutes going off in a new direction midway into this chapter. Felt like I’d reached a premature conclusion with yesterday’s writing, so decided to give myself a prompt by throwing a beanbag to randomly choose a writing prompt card, which inspired setting up an unplanned for interaction between my main
What I was doing was… Writing a little on chapter 20 of the novel. Got another 589 words down, in twenty minutes hidden away in my bedroom cave -quite a few things to second guess in what was coming out. Realised I’d somewhere changed tense, had reached the climax of the chapter really quickly and possibly in a cliched way -telling myself that these are not unsolvable issues and the
What I was doing was… A small sliver of novel writing today. Clocking in with my 15 minutes (443 more words for the draft!) Helped immensely by hiding in the blacked out cave of my bedroom while the heat outside gradually climbs and cooks my flat. Feeling like I am unwinding a bit after a busy week, and feeling so grateful for the lovely day I had yesterday thanks to