We don’t have groundhogs in Australia, and it’s Summer, not Winter, so this day means little to me… Except that Lost is coming back this day (in North America), and to celebrate I rewatched the pilot tonight. Not much has changed in five & a half years. Sure, several characters are dead, and there’s been some kind of time-space confusion, but Jack still annoys me, Kate’s still brunette, and I keep wondering where Vincent is. Not much difference at all.
It looks like I may post here once a month – which is far more frequent than last year, so this is a good thought. Plus, until I finish the second draft of Book 1 and start looking for a literary agent, I won’t have much in the way of writing talk to, well, talk about.
However, in the last month, my writing has gone at full speed. I finished Chapter 14 before the end of January. It was a very difficult chapter – eight out of twelve scenes were new. New. As in, they weren’t in the first draft. These new scenes still had the same characters from Draft 1, though. I just changed their storylines around so much that new scenarios were created and therefore new dialogue was necessary, and… It was tough. There was also a lot of geographical research that I apparently failed to do while writing the first draft.
Eg. Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) is HUGE!
Yes, I’m Aussie, but I’ve never been in the middle states. The only major rock formation I’ve seen in this country is Cradle Mountain in Tasmania. And yeah, I knew it was big, but I didn’t realise it was THAT BIG until I looked at it on the Google satellite picture. So, um, I had to rethink some parts of that particular storyline… Thankfully this story is mostly fantasy/sci-fi, and it’s set in the future, so some things can be set outside the realms of reality. But I still want to make sure it’s as real as it possibly can be.
Of course that was totally vague. I’m not telling you why Uluru is a part of my book. You’ll have to wait until it’s published. 
But, anyway, yes. Lots of good writing in January. My daily goal was 200 words, but I managed to squeeze in another 2.5 days’ worth of writing. I’ll keep the same wordcount goal for February, just to keep my brain in check, but I’d like to write 1.5 chapters this month. I have less days in February, unfortunately, and not writing yesterday didn’t help – I think my muse was taking a well-earned rest – but I feel more focused now that I achieved so much the month before. I’ve planned the scenes for Chapter 15. Most of them are, again, new, but I feel less burdened by them this time. At the start of last chapter, I was embarking on new sets of storylines. In this chapter, I’ll just be continuing them. That’s much easier to do. 
Less blogging, more writing, or else today will be a repeat of Monday. Hmm, I should rewatch that episode of The X Files. The late Kim Manners directed that one; Supernatural’s Mystery Spot too. I’ll watch them on the 4th, after Lost.
*shrugs* I think it’s much better this way. The “enemy” is still a mystery, even though there are clearly some corrupt folk around, & all the main Goodies should be known by the reader by the end of Book 1.
