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Writing Update

Hello everyone!

Just a quick writing update before I head for vacation later this week.  There probably won't be an update next Monday, and the usual Weekly Writing Progress posts will resume in March (I'll do another quick update before then).

As I've mentioned, I am in rewrites for my main project.  I finished the rewrite of chapter one (and it is somewhere just over 2,000 words).

While my rewrite is going better than I anticipated (now that I know the direction that I want to go), I still find that writing long is difficult. I'm so used to writing short stories, that when I try to write something long, I know I tend to ramble.

I am sure that is something that will get better the more the write and the more I practice but for right now its a fine line for me between writing not enough, and just sort of...rambling.

I've never been one for what I like to call "fluffy" language. I don't like a lot of extra detail, but at the same time, this has made it difficult for me to write these nice long descriptions that really make you feel like you are living the story. 

It's a balance I am working on.  But I'm not going to sweat about it until its time to edit.

This weekend I am heading for a Eugene/Portland vacation.  Going to take in some sights, visit some family, eat some good food. I'm going to bring my laptop in hopes of getting some writing done, but I'm not going to stress out too much.

March is when my 2017 is really going to start.  These first couple of months have just been a trial run.

Until next time!
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