Status of the writer

[apocalypsos]

It's day two of getyourwordsout and I haven't written a word.

What I've been doing since yesterday is foundation-building. I've got seven different WIPs in my 2010 folder and not one of them is starting the year with more than 10,000 words in it. Three of them don't have any words in them. I have an outline for The Hollow Girl, but the other five stories are basically ideas with no real frames at this point.

So up went the shipping paper, and now I've got spots up on the living room wall for me to sketch out outlines on. Progress!

(Er, of a sort.)

I think what's really bugging me right now is that I'm a bit stir-crazy at the moment. I want to go out and do something, or at the very least go for a walk, but of course it's cold and windy and I'm broke. What I really need to do this week when I get paid is invest in a membership with the gym that just opened up in town -- well, they're calling it a gym, but it used to be the local hardware store and it's kinda small -- because they have treadmills and I just want to be able to go down there and walk, walk, walk to my heart's content. It helps me think when I put on my headphones and just walk like that, and it relieves a ton of stress, but of course I hate going out in the cold so ... well, there's a reason I'm wound up in the winter.

I have to work overtime tomorrow, which kinda sucks because I feel like I'm going to go just in time to have the urge to write something. I just feel like if I build the foundation now, when I do have the time and the urge to work on any of these, I'll ... well, okay, knowing me, I'll get an entirely new idea and pound through it until I crack 50k, at which point I will abandon it and have writer's block for three blocks. Ugh, it's so sad I'm predictable in exactly that way.

Comments

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

Eh, I've written the first lines on two different projects. That amounts to about twenty words. We're both off to spinning starts! \O/

(I'm watching the History Channel's sin series currently. If the project that I'm editing features a fallen angel, that counts as research, right? *is hopeful*)

[writerrising.livejournal.com]

I just printed out an abandoned Nano project that has about 10 or 15 thousand words with plans to red pen what I have, build a stronger foundation, and then continue the story.