27 Jan: 3,139

28 Jan: 4,568

New total: 46,521. More to come imminently!

The last two days got off to a slow writing start because I was between big scenes. The big scenes flow like water, but the little scenes, the connective tissues between parts, come more slowly. It’s not less interesting but it’s just not as, well, explosive? It’s hard to describe. That, and of course, there are some scenes I have outlined that I have been positively itching to write since I first outlined them and when they finally come up in the draft, as Bryan says, I go to town on them. Explosion of words and a flurry of typewritten havoc all over the screen and suddenly I’m four thousand words farther along than I was and I’m giddy and enthusiastic. I get hyperactive when I’ve written a fun or exhilarating scene (and it could be the opposite emotion in the scene but I’ll still get a rush from writing it). This is the best part of writing. It’s not necessarily the newness of the draft that’s getting to me (though there is that) but it’s also the amazing feeling of things clicking and connecting. It’s a wonderful feeling of elation that I’ve never gotten from doing anything else (well, maybe reading a really good novel or writing a research paper and feeling its thesis snapping together with my research… but those are all inter-related, aren’t they?).

Back to the grind!