I feel bad about letting this blog lay dormant as I have. I have been putting most of my concentration (and updates) on the Writers Report blog, and writing my 2007 NaNo Novel. I’m a little behind in my word count right now with only 13,137 words (I should have at least 20,000 by now), I’m still confident that I can be at least par by the end of the week – if not a little ahead.
I am writing a suspense thriller titled Makin’ A Killing. It’s a story of how an average, everyday couple becomes inadvertently entangled with a professional hit man known as “The Machine”.
This past weekend, I ended up trashing two days of writing to do some major reconstruction on my story. Before I made the change the story was all over the place. I was having a chat session with a good writing friend of mine, when I light went off and I knew what direction I needed to take the story.
So yesterday, I spent the time re-writing a little more than a third of the story, and it made all the difference. Now I have a clearer picture of where I am taking the story and can hardly wait to get home tonight to get it down on the page.
If you ever get stuck in your story, try and talk it out with another writer. If you are involved with NaNoWriMo, they are easy to find in the NaNo Forums. It’s a great way to get a new perspective on your story that may help give it the jump-start it needs to get moving in the right direction.
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