Finally

After four days of being stuck and trying to plow my way through, I finally figured out what it was that was hanging me up. 

I started to take it down a wrong path, the writing was fine, connected in it’s own way, but it wasn’t where it was supposed to go.  It was incorrect for that particular character’s journey and the manuscript on the whole.  If I had continued in that direction, the whole flavor would have been changed.  And so everything ground to a halt.  It didn’t matter, over the next several days, how many times, or from which angle I tried to approach the next piece, nothing seemed right. 

I was starting to feel quite frustrated and in a great deal of doubt about continuing with this project, but then this morning, it’s like the fog lifted and I realized that I’d have to go back and rewrite, repair the last two segments and that that was what was making the next section so impossible.  And I did.  And it worked.

I am so relieved.  I’ve decided to make a delicious batch of fudge to celebrate.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Sunday, June 01, 2008 in Chewing the Fat