Progress Report, in which I get a little Zen

In last week’s exciting installment, I had mentioned that I had just started drafting my Halloween story.  Then a funny thing happened:  I realized that I didn’t have it yet.  I had a concept I liked, and a couple of characters, but I didn’t have the story.  So I went back into dream time and started making more notes.

And more notes.

And still more notes.

I kept hoping that I would find my plot and get back to drafting, but instead I just made more notes, coming up with story ideas and then discarding them.  I would finish a session of note-making convinced that I had settled on a direction and was ready to go.  But come the next day, I would realize I still wasn’t happy with it and go back to the drawing board.  I started engaged in my avoidance behaviors, allowing myself to be distracted too easily.

Instead of getting down on myself–my typical response–I decided to let myself off the hook a little, meaning I wouldn’t allow myself to sweat the deadline on this one.  If the story didn’t come in time, it didn’t come.  If I had to move on to a different project, then I would move on.  I guess I got a little Zen.  Part of me knew, though, that the story was in there somewhere.

And so it was that after about three or four plots and various permutations thereof, I found the one I wanted, and am now ready to return to drafting. 

I think.  Maybe.

We’ll see.

No updates for Write Club, and I’m out.

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