My Office

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~ Coleman Cox

Yesterday, I cleaned up my office.

Oh, it's not pristine, but it's much, much neater. I went through the piles of books and papers shoved onto each bookshelf and tossed what I didn't need, realized I had some duplicate books and also figured out that I have w-a-a-a-a-a-a-y too many spiral notepads. I bought them on sale at Staples for $0.10 each and went a little crazy.

This morning, I came downstairs into the office and thought I'd lost my way. It just didn't look right. Or feel right. Weird.

I did no writing yesterday. I tried, but my story is boring me to tears. I gotta figure if I'm bored, y'all will be even more bored so it needed a fix. So, though I didn't actually put pen to paper, I did spend a lot of time contemplating.

And I realized that some major plot points need changing - some will be deleted altogether, some will be shifted to different places in the book. Half of me is excited, because it'll make the story better. But the other half just wants to curl up in a ball and cry because it's going to take a lot of work.

*sigh*

Today, I hope to start making the changes and, ideally, I'd like to finish the process in the next month or so. Is that realistic?

Part of this is all Donald Maass's fault - damn him anyway. His blasted workbook is making me think.

There ought to be a law.