OK so some of you may have seen the comment on a previous post with an old friend thinking the post was about her… Because the post wasn’t actually about her and I have a niggling feeling inside of me because she had assumed it was, I guess I’ll reveal what it was really about even though I really didn’t want to. Actually, truth be told there are two things the post was about. One a personal matter I don’t wish to discuss because I am sure (hopefully) in the future things will change in that area (has to do with family, not friends) and one what I’m about to semi tell you all now!
The ‘old shiz’ I was referring to was a reoccurring family matter (which sadly enough my old friend knows all about) and the other babble was about an old project. When I left the company I realised I had spent WAY too much time in my office that I barely remembered what the rest of my house looked like so I went and sat on the couch with my old laptop. I was going through some old things and came across a folder entitled “Novel Ideas’. I opened it excitedly and sure enough there was the messy, weirdly pieced together old quarter finished draft of “untitled”.
Novel writing is something I have always been interested in and have made numerous attempts to write over the years… I started writing “untitled” like three years ago and work on it from time to time but really it was just 20,000 words of ideas, random badly put together sentences and a lot of jumble. I printed off the shabby (ehem, shitty) manuscript and started to read, edit and sift through it all before I got back into it. I worked on it for a week absolutely losing my mind trying to edit it and get my ideas in a better order and not all just clumped out… It was hilarious and terribly written (hence “losing my mind in all the hilarity”)
After a few hours of staring at the hundreds of papers surrounding me on the couch and all over the floor I got up and took the dogs for a walk to clear my head. It was a gorgeous perfect day and it was just getting really cold… I let go of all my frustrations of editing and writing again and just walked with my dogs. When I got home I moved the manuscript aside and rewrote my character studies and did some sketches…. Then I started again.
my view from the craziness
Currently I am in my first edit of my first novel (which is really now just 80,000 words of utter crap I will drive myself insane over editing) but hey, at least I FINISHED IT! (By finished it, I mean there is a beginning, middle and an end. It is far from finished haha).
a few hundred pages of crap hahaha!
I know it will take a few more moths of hard work and dedication to have it all finished and complete but every second has been and will be worth it. I honestly have no idea what will come of my novel but I don’t care… It’s mine and I have fulfilled a goal I have had for a LONG time and I couldn’t be happier! (Actually, I lie. I could be happier – it could be 100% finished, I’d still have all of my hair and my sanity.)
Anyway, there it is… Not a tricky, sneaky blog post about an old friend, but just a plain old uninformative post on an old project which has been dug up and (almost) completed…
Until next time…
Brige xx
PS- No I will not tell you what it’s about… Only 2 people know!!
PPS- Sorry about the crappy phone photos!
I’ve said in a previous post just how much I love winter and I think I am being rewarded by the frozen blog gods for this as yesterday was pretty much the coldest day we’ve had in a long, long while… The weather man said low of -6 (think that was more like -8) and high of -2… Oh the joy!! No, seriously… JOY! I love the cold… Only if my house is warm though. My dogs however do not share my love of chilly days.
