Time to Write

Monday is a holiday for the Charter school. Thank heavens! I haven't had a whole lot of time to write these last couple of weeks. Charlie's in the middle of wrestling season, and Wesley's been sick with an ear infection. I did take a day off last week to write, and it felt really good. In fact, I had two major epiphanies concerning Lizzy and Renn and the secret; that was a major "Wow!" moment, and I always like having those.

This Monday, I plan to hide away in the shed and reconnect with my characters. I finally figured out a way around the troublesome baseball scene in the sequel, so I'll probably spend the first couple of hours revising that chapter. Flashbacks can be extremely useful. I've been writing in flashback format for a while now, thanks to Lizzy, whose story is told mostly in flashback. And now Wil will be having his own flashback. Overkill? Perhaps, but Lizzy and Wil belong to two different worlds (stories), and it really is the only way to fix that scene. The sport is important to both Wil and Scott, but I learned from The Secret Keeper that it's probably not necessary to give a play-by-play re-enactment. Besides, there are about a dozen things that occur during the game that are much more important than what pitch Wil is throwing.

There - a moment of growth as a writer.

I'm really looking forward to resolving that scene; afterwards, who knows? I might finish the crucial scene with Lizzy, or I might try to fill in some of the gaps for Wil and Cassia (I left a lot out of the second draft trying to limit myself to a certain number of pages). I did set a goal for myself to have the sequel to the publisher's this year, so it might be time for me to crack down on the revisions. Who knows? What I do know is that I'll have all day Monday to play and meddle in my characters' lives. What fun!