Once more unto the breach...

A bacon sandwich and a cup of coffee - well, two cups of coffee. A great start for today.
I didn't write anything on paper over Christmas. Though I'm always writing in my head, the effects of food and the accompanying alcohol (or was that the other way round!) ensured I didn't dare write stuff down. And I had to do some extra research in Newcastle, which is still ongoing.
But tonight and onwards, the tying up of this latest new chapter and the others I've done, will get me to the point of no return @ 31/12/2013 i.e. about one third of the way through. Got to note: if I'm rubbish at a third the way through, I'll be rubbish after the rest of the story has been finished. Can't guarantee I'll get it right! Must try to, though...

2014 will see the relaxation of my life, though not in the writing of the story. Hopefully, I'll live a bit more this year. Couldn't guarantee that, either. I will try.
A third of the way through: 31/12/2013.
The resolution I've created around the beginning won't make the writing any easier, but it will make the writing happen rather quicker later.
So, the rest of it by 31/07/2014.
The spectres of Literary Agents rise before me!
Gulp... ;-)

Deadlines

I've been pretty poor at sticking to deadlines. The truth is, I've found everything very hard-going. This has been a tough story for me to write. But I'm talking in the past tense, when I've still got such a lot to do. I thought I'd have had it all finished by now - the first book, at least - but the turn of this year will see me a third of the way there. Still, a third is better than it looked to me some time back, when I wanted to throw it all in: writing this book, the blog, the whole literary journey. Agh, who knows? I may be writing something or nothing. I'll only know when it's done and the time has come to present it to the literary world.
Part of my problem is that I seem to need music and movies to help me through. Maybe I've been doing too much of that and I've been distracted. Anyway, they are not muses to discard lightly. So I won't. I've done so much reading, in the past, so my influences and instincts are rather well formed as to what kind of story I prefer. My musical influences reflect this, too.
Instinct. My hobby-horse. Without it, you will go nowhere. I've fuelled it; just gotta hope I've helped it enough to help me.
Enough about me: check out MG Harris. Maria is a writer on the up. She's a friend of mine on facebook - go take a look. We're talking books and movies long-term. Should be fun to see how far she can go. Yeehaa! lol
Now then, where was I...