write

QuickList to start with:

treadmill, yogalates (10, 13, 16, 17)

cooked a tasty dinner (19)

started getting the crib room ready for my nephew (24)

I wrote a lot today (2). It was that hard, slow-going, deliberate writing that is so much better than that easy flowing writing that usually never sees the light of day. For some reason the words that come the hardest to me are far more rewarding than any of my other writing. I think that on my last few projects I had forgotten about the journey. I wrote pages and pages without ever going anywhere. The characters may have done a lot, but they never changed. Nothing ever changed. I wonder if my recent writing from before today was somehow reflective of how I'd been living recently. . . Sorry. Introspection is perhaps best left unwritten. . . This recent project is almost certainly going to be of book length. I've never finished writing a book before. I've started several but never finished any. So here's the first update to an item on the list:

2.1 Finish the book by the end of April.

I'm not sure how realistic this goal is considering all the other stuff I want to get finished. When I get a job I won't have anywhere near the time I have right now, and I may be lucky if I can fit in a page per day. But I need a firm, pressing deadline to keep me on task. How can I ever become a novelist if I never finish writing a novel? So, there it is.

I'm grateful for inspiration (whatever that is) (20).