3 Pages Down, X to Go...

Lately, as I'm sure you all remember from my last post, I've been doing a lot of journaling and very little novel writing. Well, just recently, I've started reading Walking in this World by Julia Cameron as well as We are all Writers: How to Use Your Journal to Cure Writer's Block Now by Mari L. McCarthy. The first focuses a lot on how important creativity is for our inner artist and encourages us to practice that creativity daily. The second focuses on lifting writer's block mainly from your journal, but it can be applied to any writing project, I think. At least, that's how I use it.

Anyway, so what I wanted to let the blogosphere know is that I have begun work on my novel once more. I wasn't liking the beginning so I started over with a couple of chapters from the MC's life before being a vampire, during her early days as a vampire, and during her early days as a Krusnik. I'm hoping these will eat up some of the timeline so that I can reintroduce Leonard in the story, though she won't know it's that Leonard until much later.

I know, and some of you are going, "Who's Leonard???" Just read my novel when I release it, and you'll know! Novel excerpts will likely be posted on my website that I'm creating for my novel. Link will come soon.

Journaling Instead of Noveling...

So, lately I've been doing much more journal-writing than I do noveling. In fact, I haven't done anything on my novel in several weeks, I'm sure. If not longer. While, I wish I could say I'm disappointed in myself, I'm actually pretty excited that I'm writing anything at all. In fact, I've gone two solid weeks with journaling every day! Yes, I am quite pleased with this, and I am hoping to one day include daily novel-writing with the journaling. Anyway, so this was just a quick update to let everyone know what was going on.