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Start. Stop. Start. Stop.

10/12/2015

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Good morning, Readers!

Remember when I wanted to have Daughters of Britain finished by the end of June?  Yeah... those were the days...
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Naturally, things did not go according to plan.  I am still writing that manuscript.

I have plenty of excuses, of course - editing a different manuscript, organising my convention season, freaking out about doing a pitch, working full time, martial arts schedule increase from four days a week to five, serious illness in the family and so on.  Truth be told, there really wasn't much I could do about the big things.  The smaller things, however... I know I could have managed my time better, and it annoys me a lot.

I'm almost done writing the first, but it's taken far longer than I anticipated, and that bothers me.  A lot.  I hate being late.  It was supposed to be away to Beta Reader One by now.  Once it's done, of course, there are a lot of things that I have to go back and fix.  I have to add in some dates and decide how I'm going to organise the manuscript.  I have to remember what's his face's name is and replace all the capital 'C's I put as a place holder until I remembered.  The same with the name of the Gaulish city where most of the story takes place.  That place holder is a capital 'L.'  In fact, there are a fair few names in the same predicament.

Also, I couldn't decide if one of the characters was named Brys, Prys or Rhys.  The same guy has three different names in this manuscript.  I might change the name entirely, though, to something more in line with the other Roman British names that appear in the manuscript.  We'll see.  I don't know.

What I'm trying to say is that, despite taking my sweet arse time writing this thing, the manuscript is a hot mess.

It's lucky I love the story.

And even that is starting to wane.  After working nearly a year on it, the story no longer seems fresh and exciting.  It's old, and tired, and I'm so tired of dealing with it.  Ugh.  I just want to throw it in a drawer and forget about it for a bit.

Which I will, after this draft is thoroughly fixed up and editing by me (in so much as I am able at this juncture).

You see, even though I whinge and whine and get peevish about it, there's nothing I'd rather be doing than writing.  And this is a story I've been wanting to tell for a long while.  So even though I'm sick to death of this whole thing, and even though my writing has been very sporadic, I will get this manuscript finished.

In honour of this attitude, here is a song:
And with that, I must get writing.

​Ciao!
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