As promised, surprisingly I’m managing to convert intentions to action, so here’s a brief report on current activity on the WIP. See my post on 22nd March here.
The process of adding factual, real events to the novel is moving forward. Perhaps not as rapidly as I’d hoped, but movement is movement and we have to be thankful for small mercies. I do, anyway!
I’m about to start on Chapter 12 of the current 42. The process is supposed to be entirely about the additions but, as expected, I can’t resist the chance to tamper with the odd sentence, rearrange a few words, seek and sometimes find the best word for that particular sentence, description, emotion, or event. With a memory like mine, I have to grab those moments before they vanish with strange alacrity into the ether.
So, yes, progress is being made. More slowly than I’d prefer, but at least the journey continues forward.
It’s quite an emotional task, as this sort of editing, where real events impinge on an imagined story, can revive long-forgotten life events that send me, as a writer, inevitably down those blessed rabbit holes. I then slowly re-emerge into reality and somehow regain control of process once more and then continue.
Which is what I’m going to do right now.
Be back with you some time in the not-too-distant…
Stuart Aken 