And so, a week later than expected I have returned. I see A has kept you in the loop regularly...
Despite her panic though, I have in my inbox this morning 6 whole pages of text and some ideas for new characters. I've just read it and although I'd like to say it looks like a rush job, alas, it is of decent quality and even has exciting levels of punctuation.
I'm just about the email the latest installment of my efforts, written whilst lazing on a beach. I can honestly say that I spent hours thinking about Kezra and her troubles. However, my email will unfortunately consist mainly of phrases like "I know I said 10 pages but.." and "I just don't know what happened to the time"... I fully expect serious amounts of backlash.
Perhaps I should invent some kind of incident involving a shark and subsequent missing limbs to explain the reason for my pitiful *whispers* 2 pages.
Today though, is the first wednesday of the month, and therefore we should mention the Insecure Writers Group. I think "insecure" is an accurate description of me today. Having read A's efforts, I'm almost ashamed to send her what I have. We both also feel, that perhaps, maybe, we ought to speed up just a little. With only 350 days to go, we are a long way away from the finish line. Impending failure seems likely. Our friend may have been right all along.. maybe we are just not cut out for this..
We need tips. Anyone? We've tried bullying. We also tried healthy competition - both seem to have failed. Perhaps we should set ourselves a minimum number of hours per week that we spend writing. 5 hours? Is that reasonable?
Anyway, I'd better get on with sending that email...
S
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