Slow Has Been Smooth, and Smooth Feels Fast!

Since my last post, I’ve been trying really hard to stick to my guns. I’ve been writing – a lot – but only when creativity whispers that there’s something important I absolutely have to get out of my head. The result has been fantastic.

Mostly.

On one hand, it’s been great only writing when the mood strikes; I’ve managed to reach almost 30,000 words on my WIP in about a month and it has felt effortless. On the other hand, however, it has been insanely difficult to resist the call of productivity. More than once since my last post, I’ve felt the drive to keep writing even after a good stint of non-forced productivity. Maybe I put down a quick 1,000 words that felt really good. Well…my brain would tell me that wasn’t enough and that I needed to get down another thousand before the end of the day.

Luckily, my wife is the best, and she’s been doing a great job talking me down from forcing more words onto the page. Without her, I’d be much farther along in my manuscript, but I have no doubt that the quality of that prose wouldn’t be nearly as good. So, she deserves some serious props for supporting how I’ve chosen to write this novel and holding me to my promise.

She’s, obviously, the best!

On a completely separate note, I was asked to read an ARC shortly after my last post, so I got caught up doing that for a few weeks. That’s the bulk of why I haven’t posted recently. I was doing good for a while there, and I feel a little bit bad that I skipped out on all you wonderful people that have been dropping in every week to read my updates, so I’m sorry for that. Maybe as a consolation prize, I’ll even post my review on my blog. Would that even be of interest? Or would you guys prefer to see a short excerpt of Where the Fog Falls? Or would you prefer to see something out of an older one I haven’t updated you on in a while? Let me know in the comments below and I’ll get something put together.

And thanks for reading. I had no expectations when I decided to start updating this blog again, but I really appreciate all the comments and likes. They’re wonderfully supportive and have made this blog an exciting part of my creative process; it’s a great change of pace that I’m definitely planning on keeping up with!

More updates soon!