The Plot Thickens

 It's true, for the first time since my initial thought of becoming a writer, I have finally plotted something. Despite the multiple days off from writing, I can actually pick up where I left off and attempt to run with it. But one character is already possibly getting the axe when editing once I've completed the initial draft phase. 

I'm happy to admit when my cat Nala snuggles up at my hip while I sit to write either a journal entry or time while I smash out some word count sprints during the day. Her purring encourage me to keep going, oddly enough. I'm happy to have grown within a community of writers.  

-----

It's been a bit since I last added some mental notes for this entry back in November, it's actually the end of December and the end of 2022. So I thought I would try to end this year with more than one entry into this blog. After some consideration, I have gone back to handwriting my journal entries and I am tempted to do some handwritten on rewriting act one of the story I'm currently working on. November taught me that plotting has helped me attempt to further progress in the story. But December has taught me that even with a plot loosely set it can change to suit the story progression. 

I would like to thank my writing friends for helping me learn the "art" of plotting. I can't remember which of my writing friends for sure offered me a template for the basic 3 act story structure. Many thanks for that! With the new knowledge of a plot structure, I shared it with another writer friend through discord! 

It's the season of giving (at the time it was close to Thanksgiving if I'm not mistaken) but she definitely was thankful for it as well. For that, I'm thankful to be able to help a fellow writer. I am thankful to have friends that understand the issues I face during writing. We all cheer each other on when we desperately need encouragement! I am thankful to be part of such a wonderful community. 

I am....lost?

 Wow, so set this blog up back in 2016 and just now posting my first entry. Feels weird knowing how long this blog has been active yet no words have been posted since its beginning. To those that might pop in occasionally, I apologize for this long overdue welcoming to my blog. I am trying so hard to get past writer's block that's been plaguing me for what feels like YEARS! 

A long time ago, I used to believe I could be a writer. Years later and a tiny terror born, my priorities have demolished that belief. And then 2019 happened and things got flipped on me once again. I tried to write a story, was so excited about the progress that year, about nineteen thousand words in, I gave up. I couldn't keep going. Writer's block and fast forward to the current time, I have tried multiple projects starting yet each one I've given up on. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I never plan anything when I write. I never saw the point, nowadays, it seems most authors PLOT their works in progress to death and still manage to forget to close some plot bunnies that got away from them. But anyways, I digress on that subject. To be completely honest, I'm lost as to what to write and how. To quote a movie, "I've lost my mojo!" Austin Powers Goldmember. 

So with that I part away, unsure of where my creative fire beginning is actually to start, 

RR