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getting to know your world again, going back to a manuscript, lost, staring, thoughts, writing, writing is hard
I started working on a new and exciting manuscript…a middle grade horror!
Then I was distracted by short stories.
It happens. And if it’s not other writing adventures, plain old wonderful life sucks away writing time. But after the suckage ends, it always does, after the short stories are submitted…the manuscript waits.
I went back.
And stared at it.
And went on Twitter.
And went back to staring at my ms.
And went running back to Twitter.
And realized that I was running from it cause it was looking at me funny.
I didn’t know it as well as I did. We went our separate ways for a while. Maybe it was mad at me.
Time to get to know that world. So I stared. I scribbled notes. I let my brain live with Ember again. I listened to Nowhere and all my characters. Heck, I offered it cookies and glittery stickers.
And the story began to speak to me! TA DA!
So I am back to writing my first attempt at middle grade. The words are slow at the moment, but I will not give up. Time to focus and finish this sucker.
It’s hard to leave projects…or maybe not, depending…
Possibly harder to go back. But a bit of magical determination, a little bribery to get those characters to talk to you, and POOF the words and ideas return.
So staring…is a pretty great place to start.
