Velocity Blog

I wrote out the ending of Velocity about two months ago, I still don’t have a lot of the stuff written that leads up to the finale but I keep looking at it, wondering if the course I’m taking is the right one. I’ve had this plot point that ends book 4 in mind for awhile but I’m not totally sure that the pieces are right. The feeling is where I want it, but the procedural steps are not quite where I need them to be. This is something that can be fixed with editing and stuff so I’m not super worried about it, but as I’m working through the middle of book 4 I am started to see where there might be holes.

This is why when you see people talking about what type of writer they are they say they are a plotter or a pantser or a plantser for a combo of the two. I would call myself a plantser before anything else. I don’t really stick to one or the other, I like the freedom to plot sometimes and pants at other times. Ultimately I feel that I have to work around some kind of plan.

The plan I’ve had for this book all along is at it’s core and other than surface level detail not much else is changing, but I do feel that something in what I’m working with isn’t working. Something isn’t sitting right with me but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

The past few weeks have not been conducive to writing for various reasons so I’m also off kilter now. My focus is completely out of whack. This is an unfortunate fact of life for me. Especially around the holidays when people are more keen to see and be seen and when vacations are coming together and the weather makes me sick it’s just hard to sit and be focused. This is also a fact of life.

I gotta be forgiving of myself when these times crop up. It’s so easy to be frustrated that the quantity or quality of my writing isn’t up to standard but it’s more important to be compassionate to the process.

I have goals of writing two books a year since I stepped down from management at my workplace and that goal may be a little unreasonable. I have to accept the fact that writing ONE book a year is absolutely perfect and OKAY. I like to have lofty goals but I have to remember that I work a lot and I still need time to rest. So taking a month off of Velocity may be the break I need to work on editing of Victory or Hope.

Be gentle with yourselves friends! Remember that always!