As I think I’ve mentioned, I’ve been feeling stuck.
Tonight, I unstuck.
I have the next four days off. I’ve challenged myself to add another 10,000 words to the novel by the time I go back to the day job.
I decided to go back to my old process tonight, that is, writing everything out longhand then typing it up. Just as an experiment.
2500 words came really easily. About 2 hours worth of work.
I realized, yet again, that I look at the computer as something I work on.
And writing isn’t work. Writing is play. There are times when I have that connection, of writing as play, when on the computer. Mostly, though, I don’t. And I’ve been having it less and less.
I don’t know what this means in terms of my process, if I’ll never go back to first draft on the computer or what. But for now, this weekend, I’m going to go with the flow, go with what is finally working, and just write.