After what feels like months of nothinggggg, finally wrote some more.  1,000 words more, to be exact.  And it's absolutely hilarious.  :D  Nothing like a humorous mini-episode to spur me on to write more.  Literally cried laughing writing this part...it's so honest and real and it's something that would totally happen (and it sorta did happen to me, but not in the same circumstances).

Now, to sally forth and conquer the next bit of the story.  Maybe if I stop thinking about the "next" bit as being ALL of the awesomeness that's currently jammed in my head, then maybe I can write it before next year.  LOL

Can't seem to motivate myself to change much on the story, and it's been this way for almost a week and a half.  Hoping that this will change, now that a few of the holiday season's important events have passed. 

I'm thinking it's just stress and anxiety that's keeping me from writing, since I'm worried about my failed hard drive being irrecoverable.  (Yeah, my hard drive died unexpectly about a week ago and we've had to send it off to a totally different state to see if a forensic data recovery company can do anything with it.  Praying they can recover hundreds of dollars in purchased music and thousands of hours of work!)

Anyway, writer's block shall not conquer me forever.  This, I know from previous experiences.  It might be a week, might be a month or even several months, but I'll get back into writing this.  I'm so excited to tell this story still--just got to get off my proverbial butt and do it.  XD

YEP!  I celebrated finally finishing the part of the book that had been bedeviling me by writing ~5,000 words two days ago. (Who would have thought 3 pages in the last "episode' could trip me up for almost 3 months?  Oh wait, wisdom teeth, infection, surgery, medication...yeeeeaaaah).

Now that I'm past the difficult part (literally and figuratively), I feel renewed, and I WANT to tell this part of the story that has been bubbling in my head for months.  It's simmered and it's finally ready to come off the stove eye.  WOOOOOoooOOOOooooOOOT!

After reading the last 20 pages of my book, I realized I had several errors in continuity, mainly details and strange little forgetful episodes.  It's been a tumultuous few months, so I'm not surprised I wrote in a bit more scrambled manner than usual.  The backspace key is my friend... :P  It's important to read over my own writing--otherwise, you all might end up reading a very odd story in a few months!  XD

(And I'm very glad I didn't leave these errors to editing time!  Lord knows what the editor would have thought!  LOL)

In my last post, I referenced my novel as being at 122,000 words.  Checked it this evening before beginning some edits, and I saw that it was just above 125,000.  ...This is why I never became a math major.  XD

WOOT for 3,000 more words than I thought I had!  :D

...Those are the feelings I'm working with as I write this next episode, since I finally have my computer back (still wounded, but able).  The main character is wrapped up in a totally new experience, and I keep coming back to the central feeling of awe, wonder, and NEWNESS.  Seeing the world through this character's eyes is utterly refreshing.

In other news, 122,000 words.  Rar.  Fear my keyboard prowess.  LOL

With my computer still needing fixing, I've taken to scripting out what is ahead in my novel mentally rather than trying to type it up.  The time without the computer has actually helped me get over one of the writer's blocks I had before, and now I feel surer about where the story is going in the next "episode."

What I mean by "episode":  in my book, I have mentally divided up the story into chunks based on the settings in which they take place.  Each new setting and its individual story constitutes an "episode."  What's surprising to me is how much of this next episode I have already nailed down in my head.  I know pretty much the sequence and the characters involved at every step in the sequence--unusual for me, a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants writer by nature.

Looking forward to actually typing up this mentally-scripted scene, as soon as I get my computer back!  :D

Oh yes I did.  120,000 words as of last week.  :D :D :D  Continuing to write on the peaceful plot I mentioned last time, but the more turbulent sub-plot will return...as soon as I get my faithful little laptop buddy back from being fixed.  :C  (I didn't lose any data, but the screen suffered damage after it was knocked from a tabletop  Sad.)

In other news, ever notice how when you're thinking out a plot idea, it seems so simple and quick to write, but when you actually go to write it, it takes about 5 pages to work out even the smallest tidbit?  Yep.  That has been my writing as of late.  LOL

So, after almost three weeks of being utterly stymied on the plot, my creative juices apparently flooded my brain, and I ended up producing almost 4,000 words in 2 days.  RAWR!

I've switched perspectives a couple of times, alternating a peaceful greater plot with a more turbulent sub-plot, and even though I fear that the peaceful plot is getting a little too boring, the action of the sub-plot keeps both going.  At least, I hope it will.  ^_^

Okay, so I kinda forgot to post two weeks ago when I hit the momentous 100,000 words.  XD  Fail on my part.  But I did hit the big 100,000, and have been chugging steadily on toward 110,000 (currently at just under 107,000). 

I am working with a little deeper subplot at the moment--tune into my recent blog post about this little gem of a storyline!