I'll be honest. Something hurt me in chapter 90. I thought the description of the video was a nice little piece of writing, and I was rather proud of that after I finished it that night. I still remember turning off the lights in my office and going to the bedroom with a funky, little lop-sided grin on my face. The wife even noticed, but then again, they see almost everything.
The hurt came from no one saying anything about it. So I guess I liked it a lot more than everyone else did. I didn't even get a simple, nice. But I digress.
I realized this last night while I forced myself into writing. The stuff I did still sucked, but I soon noticed that acknowledging my hurt over a well-written scene in a free story might be surreptitiously keeping me from thinking anything I've been writing is any good.
So, I talked to the wife. She pointed out that I had been in a mood ever since that chapter was posted, and no one had given any kudos for the nice scene. Then she apologized because she realized she had not either.
Well, no need to get into that. Y'all can use your imaginations for that one, but I did find myself this evening writing a bit of stuff much cleaner and not as stuffy or convoluted as what I've been producing for the last few weeks.
I'll never say something stupid like, "I'm past my bout of writer's block." Nope, I'll never do something like that. But I will say I made a decision about what was causing me some trouble, and now the chapter is coming into focus.
So I hope to be able to send this chapter, even though it is so behind schedule, to my editors and let them fix it for public consumption. Lord knows they are the only ones who can do so.
Okay, rant over. I'm going to bed and getting some rest for a full day of writing tomorrow.
Toodles.
--Shinerdrinker