ChaBooCha Day 6

Much of today’s writing time was devoted to some editing that I’m doing for someone else, but I did get a little time to make some progress with the anthology today. I already knew when I committed to #ChaBooCha that I wouldn’t necessarily get a lot of time each day to spend on the challenge, so any progress is simply fine with me. The purpose of the challenge is to get a draft of a chapter book completed; for me I have some of the chapters already written prior to the start of March, and my purpose is to get as many sloppy drafts as possible of new tales written. Whether it’s one or fifteen, I’ll be happy.

A few years ago, I started to write a retelling of The Goose Girl, for Teapot Tales Volume 3. I ended up not completing this one as the story needed more space than a flash fiction story permitted (am I sensing a repeating theme here?) and because I submitted 6 tales for that volume anyway (what do you know – sometimes I complete what I set out with writing these stories). So, I dove into The Goose Girl today … I didn’t get many words down, but I did get some of the points down that I wanted to cover in the story. My version of the Goose Girl will look closer at the abuse that people can suffer at the hands of their friends. I don’t have a clear ending in mind, even after all of these years, but now I have enough space to work though it so I’m confident that I’ll find the ending sooner rather than later.

I’m also making more progress with The Huntsman and the Hart, and I’ve been able to include some details that I had to scrap when I was trying to write this as a flash fiction tale. I’m still aiming to write this as a short story but prepared to accept that it may end up as a novella. It’s just a great feeling to have the creative juices flowing with these particular faerie tales.

So why the daily blog posts even when there isn’t much to record? Well, I’m getting back into the habit of blogging regularly, and because it helps to keep me on track with my progress. And it may help others that are thinking of doing the challenge themselves. And above all, because I love talking about writing, faeries tales, and the writing process.