My family just got back from a vacation. We drove several hours to a neighboring state and stayed a few days with my Uncle and Aunt. We had a pleasant trip.
When I was planning for the trip, I imagined that I would spend most of my many hours riding in the car, writing on 24 Days Before Christmas. I imagined that I could have my book at least half way done by the time we returned home. In reality? I wrote a full two pages in the car. Two pages. Hardly anything compared to what I had hoped to accomplish. I did get some writing done though. We had some down time at the house and I was able to spend it productively where my writing was concerned. Altogether I wrote close to two chapters on vacation. Still not nearly as much as I planned, but still good. My mystery is coming along pretty well, though I need to start lining up my suspects. At this point you don’t really know who to suspect and you almost don’t even know if you should suspect anyone in the first place! (If that didn’t sound like a confusing sentence!)
I am having a problem with one of my characters though. His name is Harry. Harry’s biggest problem is that he’s kind of wooden and boring. I haven’t been able to make him “spring to life”! I’m trying to work on it, but for some reason, I can’t seem to do it. I’ve even considered getting rid of the character altogether, but it isn’t likely that I’ll succeed at doing that. I’m rarely successful at deleting any of my characters. That being the case, I need to somehow, bring more life to this character. We’ll see how it goes…
My other goal for our trip, was to read when I wasn’t writing in the car. Not only did I not read very much, I didn’t touch any of my books, except my Bible, during the entire trip. I’m trying to read Davy Crockett’s autobiography. Mr. Crockett had an interesting life, from what I’ve read so far. While the book is interesting, I am finding the grammar a bit difficult to follow and parts of the story lacking in relevance. LORD willing, I will post a review after I finish. Oh yes, and did I mention that Mr. Crockett had an obvious desire to become the president of the United States? He makes it very clear in this book that he wants to move higher politically and that being the president was his goal. I’m only a quarter of the way through the book so far too. I am enjoying it overall though and I hope to finish the book during the next week or two.
I need to go work on reorganizing some bookshelves now…
To the KING be all the glory!
Only two pages? *cough* Wow. Well, I wasn’t much better on our vacation. I could have been working on my NaNo outline but nope, I spent the whole time typing Pixar/Disney movie reviews! LOL
Oh, I dislike it when I get a wooden character too! I have found that they normally seem to get a sense of character by the end of the book, however! Lol. Maybe it just takes some ‘getting to know’ time.
Great update, I’m glad your back safely! :)
~Jamie
Heehee At least I’m not alone! :p
I hope he does… *rolls eyes* I had a hard time with Malcolm before too… but Harry is way worse!
Thank you! :)
To the KING be all the glory!
Rebekah
I know exactly what that’s like… :)
Have you ever resolved to sit down and do some intense writing, but you first decide to get everything “ready”? You make a cup of tea, cut a slice of cake, dim the lights, turn on some Beethoven, and then sit down… and all of the sudden your desire to write goes poof! LOL! That’s happened to me multiple times before. I’ve learned that sometimes I just gotta sit down and make myself write, even when I don’t feel like it. :D
LOL I’ve done that! It can be so annoying! If I force myself to write for awhile, I can usually get inspired after a few paragraphs… usually… :D