This is kind of different

[darkemeralds]

I knew I'd need some down time once the fun and excitement of kis and Mr Kis's visit was over, so I booked an extra week of vacation--five completely blank days on my calendar.

After a couple of nights of super-excessive sleeping and a couple of days of restorative do-nothing puttering-about-the-house, a strange thing happened: I started writing and couldn't stop.

People who write fast and fluently will probably not think much of this: to my writingest friends, a free day equals a day of actual writing, as far as I can tell--I can't think how else they get so much written. To me it usually equals a day of hair-pulling. I start, I stop, I check my email, I struggle over a sentence or a plot point till I can't struggle no more, then I take a break, and repeat the process, and that's why Restraint will be two years old in October.

But yesterday! Wow. I sat down at 11:00 a.m. and basically stood up at 11:00 p.m., and the only thing I can remember doing all day is writing. I finished chapter 38 and sent it off to my still-traveling beta, and without a pause, I opened a new document and started chapter 39.

I wish I could bottle whatever it was that made that happen.

Comments

[scribblemoose]

Ah, I know that feeling. Rare but precious. :)

[darkemeralds]

I'm trying to string it out for as long as I can!

[cat63]

Must be something in the air - the post under yours on my reading page is another friend who's just started writing again after a long gap...

Congratulations in any case :-)

[darkemeralds]

Thanks! I think what's in the air for many of us is autumn: back to school, back to work, that sort of thing. Remarkably powerful effect. It's probably no coincidence that yesterday was the first full day of rain we've had here since early July.

[cat63]

I think what's in the air for many of us is autumn:

turning over a new leaf, eh? [runs away]

[darkemeralds]

LOL!

[lamentables]

Congratulations!
And also, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
*bounces with anticipation*

[darkemeralds]

Chapter 38 is a big one. It took me AGES to understand what it was really about, and more ages to prune out everything that was fun but irrelevant, so now it's almost ready.

[without_me]

WOOHOO!!! Also, I hope the fun-but-irrelevant bits will make it into outtakes, eventually! (Yes, I'm greedy 24/7; it's a thing.)

[darkemeralds]

Funny you should mention that. In groping about trying to find the heart of Chapter 39, I've just abandoned myself to writing a scene that will almost certainly have to be an outtake. It involves mineral hot springs...

Dang. I love a good bathing scene.

[without_me]

Eeeeeeeeee!!! You really are too good to us.

[pandarus]

Woohoo!

::high fives you::

That's SPLENDID! Go Team!

&hearts

[darkemeralds]

Thank you. :D

[tehomet]

I wish I could bottle whatever it was that made that happen.

I wish you could, too. And then send me some! :D

[darkemeralds]

I know, right? If I had it, I'd share it!

[cookiemom6067]

TWO YEARS!????!!!

You're lyin'!!!!

It doesn't FEEL like two years!!!

It doesn't even feel like one year!!

[darkemeralds]

Sorry, a somewhat false impression there. I started posting chapters on Valentine's Day this year, but I'd already been working on it for more than a year at that point.

I started it in October 2008. I have the email to prove it. :D