Progress On The WIP?

On By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, opinion, Progress

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…

10 thoughts on “Progress On The WIP?”

      1. Hi Stuart, you’re welcome. I saw that you requested access to my site. Sorry about that. I had temporarily made it private because I was getting bombarded by bots. I may have to do it again unfortunately if it becomes a problem once more. Cheers.

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        1. Bots and scam emails – the latter are the bane of my life at present. I get about 20 scam emails every day from people pretending to be writers, agents, marketers, and even book club secretaries. There’s an AI ‘factory’ in Nigeria turning out some pretty sophisticated emails, and all of them are aimed at extracting money from those unfortunate enough to be taken in. You’d think the Nigerian Government would do something about it to prevent the country getting a bad name, eh?

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          1. I don’t have scam emails, thankfully, but there have been many bots hitting my blog coming out of North Bergen (New Jersey, U.S.) and Hong Kong. Ugh. I’ve read about those fake emails and the scams that are being perpetrated. I wonder if the Nigerian government is making money from them too? Seems like a possibility. Cheers.

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