sometimes writing is fun

I had the best morning ever!  I’m really excited with this new direction I’m taking The Big Muckle in.  It was one of those glorious mornings where the writing came easy and my new ideas seemed to work.  It’s like everything felt in sharper focus and the stuff that was okay to leave in from the old manuscript was written with a florescent magic marker or something.  It was just so easy, after days of struggling, to jettison paragraphs and pages that no longer worked or had relevance.  Whacking out huge chunks, sentences, paragraphs, entire pages flying over my shoulder, helter skelter!  Sometimes only a fraction of a sentence off an entire page that would remain.  And the rest…gone! 

And the thing is, sometimes when I try this kind of drastic overhaul, I just screw everything up and it become a hopeless disappointing gooey mess.  But not today!  Today, the work of the last week, is finally starting to take shape and make sense and I know I’m only 20 pages in to the new rewrite, but today it’s like the sun peeked out and I feel hopeful that the rest of the manuscript will follow.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Friday, November 16, 2007 in Chewing the Fat