It has been a crazy summer so far at la Casa Sorensen. Business trips, plumbing repairs, vacations, and today a new air conditioner is being installed. (By the way, why does the air conditioner wait until it’s a 100 degrees outside before it dies?)
However, by some miracle, I’ve managed to stay somewhat on track with my writing. I don’t know if it’s the crazy schedule or the heat has fried my brain, but strange things have been happening with my latest novel. Things I used to love to write I’ve been avoiding like a plague, while things I tend to put off writing are flowing out of me like water.
I normally love to write high tension moments between characters. Two of my beloved characters having an argument is one of my favorite things to work out. However, so far in my latest work in progress (which I’m tentatively calling TAKING INVENTORY) I have been avoiding these scenes and even wondering if they are necessary to move the plot along. (They are.)
And conversly, scenes I hate to write, like love scenes, have been flowing through my fingers and into the computer like the world is coming to an end. They seem to be sexier and more graphic than I’ve previously written. Maybe I’ve been watching too much True Blood on HBO. I don’t know.
However, what I do know is don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. (Where exactly did that phrase come from anyway?) I figure I’ll keep writing whatever my muses guide me to and it will all balance out, sooner or later.
Oh, one last thing, check back often. I am hoping to have big news concerning CRUSH AT THOMAS HALL to share within the new few days!
With the switch in writing flow… sounds like a lot of taking care of the necessary business parts, run with that phase as long as you can, when it runs out you’ll be back to writing the parts you love, but the developmentals will languish until you just HAVE TO WRITE IT.
The Trojan Horse was the original gift horse. Americanos misunderstand the phrase about not looking it in the mouth, looking it in the mouth would have save a lot of Trojans on their fire insurance! (Don’t look it in the mouth is a Mycenaean’s prayer)
I know this would have been the perfect place to post HAPPY BIRTHDAY. I don’t know why anyone did — especially on your Birthday…