Everyone Can Be Saved.

I got some editing done in class of what I wrote yesterday, and today I got to about page fourteen in my story. I guess I can't really bitch about pacing anymore. I doubled my word count from yesterday, but I think what's killing me is having to reformat everything from the British computer by hand. Every quotation mark and every space between sentences has to be changed. A right pain, let me tell you. But god, does it feel good.

Oh, and I even wrote a page of all new material that was stand alone. Hell has finally frozen over, folks.

Word Count: 16,443

There Are People With Problems Everywhere You Go.

I really do feel accomplished. I finally managed to turn my first eight page soliloquy into four pages of dialogue. I got rid of the suicide letter concept, figuring that it was far too complex to integrate into the whole of the novel and overall just not worth it to me, so I will save that for a short story exclusive. Now it's just cleaning up the next tweleve pages littered with references to the damn things. But, progress is coming along well, I really do feel amazed that after almost three years of procrastinating, it's finally started again.

Word Count for the Night: 8,033

A Writer is an Odd Thing.

"In life there comes a moment, and I believe that it's unavoidable, that one cannot escape it, when everything is put in doubt: marriage, friends, especially friends of the couple. [...] This doubt is alone, it is the doubt of solitude. It is born of solitude. We can already speak the word. I believe that most people couldn't stand what I'm saying here, that they'd run away from it. This might be the reason why not everyone is a writer. Yes. That's the difference, That is the truth. No other. Doubt equals writing. So it also equals the writer. And for the writer, everyone writes. We've always known this."

-- Marguerite Duras, Writing (8)

I've started writing again by some miracle, and this is where, for the few of you that give a shit, I'm going to keep track of my progress. I'm hoping that it will keep me motivated to write, or some such. Feedback welcomed, maybe I'll even post selections if I'm convinced enough.

So, on task for now is Spoken Silence. It's been a long time coming, that's for certain.