This week was really busy, meaning that my writing targets suffered for it but given what I was doing, I’m okay with that. If I just borrow some of the words I wrote last week, it somewhat evens out.

This week I:

• I set up my new computer
• went back to work
• had some quality time with my younger siblings (virtual)
• had some quality time with my partner’s younger sibling (virtual)
• had some outside quality time with my partner (still social distancing from everyone else)
• completed 10km NAIDOC March with my partner, sister and brother-in-law
• completed the remainder of my 21.2km NAIDOC March with my partner
• injured myself trying to jog more than I can
• set up a digitial BB
• talked about my novels more
• shared some of my work
• did a lot of walking when I couldn’t think of anything to write
• planned DND sessions
• brainstormed DND one-shots
• etc. etc.

With the change in location and busy week (now that I have to actually be places), I’m not surprised that I’ve written bugger all, and I’m not too upset about it. I do expect better of me this week though. Put on the kettle and let’s get this new week started… and not be late with the writing reflection.

I now have an actual steel tumbler and so my tea is not going from hot to cold in twenty seconds and it is blissful. I had a thermos that I used to use but the inside of it cracked and so it doesn’t work that great anymore, and I got this tumbler to use for coffees when I’m out. I’ve bought way too many coffees for not having a reusable cup.

Currently, my targets for the week are at:

• 2,406 / 10,000 for “Personal Writing”
• 3,298 / 5,000 for “Professional Writing”

So, most of the words were just from The Tales of Mylvetta, and I’ve reached the part of the story where it could go one of a dozen different ways and I haven’t quite decided where to lead it. I’ve been writing about how I might like it to end and it just ends up in paragraphs of different endings and I’m finding it stalling me from continuing. This particular tale I’m writing has also gone longer than I thought it would and so I want to wrap up and not keep running with it and then end up with it being 60,000 instead of 20,000. Well… it’s 30,000 now so I might lift the bar to 40,000.

I’m not sure if I can’t choose the ending because I don’t know what I want or because I don’t know what would read better and make the story better. Usually I would think those two go pretty hand-in-hand, the way I want to write it is how it should be writte, but of course that’s not entirely true. I want to make sure I’m avoiding cliches or am at least doing them correctly. People who read a lot become more skilled at predicting how a book will go, and so I’m not worried about that, more worried about people who don’t read a lot finding it predictable. If that makes sense. More or less, I don’t want someone to pick up my work, get a little bit into it, guess the course of the story, guess it right and then just chuck it aside because it’s just the same thing over and over. I think I’m thinking more about this because, for this particular tale, I have read a lot of short stories in this genre and it got to the point where I was tired of nothing new that I just started writing something.

I think I’ll spend some time brainstorming and reflecting on my writing this week, for this specific piece at least.

Let’s get it!

That’s my Writing Reflection for the week starting the 6th July 2020.