Right now it is almost 4 pm on Thursday, August 25th.

My last post was on August 22nd, Monday. Since then I’ve written over 6,000 words in chunk 35+ and figured out what my mental block was with it.

What the problem was is that I had two separate characters each doing their own arc thing and the time frames weren’t syncing up between them. The rest of the story, for the most part, had been chronological in order. Somehow in chunk 35 I had lost my mental grasp on the timeline and col*

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It is now 5:25 pm. I just got back from taking my daughter on a shopping run to get a girlfriend of hers a birthday gift.

where was I…

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… I had lost my mental grasp on the timeline and…

Damn… I don’t recall what I was thinking.

That’s the damn problem with always having constant interruptions.

I think I was trying to say I split the chunk up into different ones with each character’s POV in mind. The Boog sections went to a BoogPOV document and the Jessica/Cerbril ones went to the mainPOV document. Once I did that it began flowing again and I was able to pick up the Boog storyline from where I had left off. All 6,000 words were on his timeline.

I seemed to recall I wasn’t having any issues with the Jessica/Cerbril storyline so I essentially ignored it, for the time being. I know I’ll have to get back to it at some point.

The Boog story progression went amazingly well. So well that I’ve almost reached the point of them being reintegrated back into the Jessica/Cerbril one. Once I reach that point I’ll put that on the back burner again and catch back up with the Jessica/Cerbril one to the same point. Then I work on weaving the two chains back into each other again where they would fit chronologically.

Did any of that make sense?

I know I’m rambling here.

Life… it’s the excitement of it all, the monotony of it all, it’s the first draft of it all.

🙂

Tootles all

😛

** Wait! **

If you were following along with the math, you should have come up with my current chunk 35+ now being well past the 6,000 words at this point. That means once I get the two merged back together it could span several more chunks. I try to keep each chunk between 4,000 to 4,500 words for editing and review purposes for my group. I know I would hate seeing something larger being submitted upon me with all the crapy mistakes I tend to drop in my own stuff.

4,500 words times 36 chunks makes my overall story right now at about 160,000 words. SSHHEEPPPP!

I would say I’m at about the 75% mark right now against my mental overall projected story arc.