Just got back from a trip to see a niece graduate. A fun time was had by all, but I’m glad to be back home.
Before I left, something happened (a relationship thing) that left me devastated . . . yet somehow rekindled the creative fire at the same time. It’s as if letting go of this situation cleared away the distractions and sharpened my vision. The decision to stop pining for him and create solely because I need to, instead of in preparation for a future too far away to see, gave me a sense of purpose I didn’t have before. I still have the Dream, it’s just put away for now. I imagine I’ll take it out from time to time, when it helps more than it hurts.
I picked up Foxglove again before I left, and made some breakthroughs that I think will really open the story up and take it into unexpected avenues. The process I’m experimenting with is working beautifully so far; I printed out what I had of the manuscript (about 100 pages), sat down with it and cut up everything into scenes, did notecards for each, and took notes on where the story was pointing, and where I wanted it to go. I’ve got some subplots in development, and my Sentence finally seemed to come together in a way that it hadn’t before. So it’s going extremely well. I can’t wait to get back to work on it!
Right now I’m reading Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers for The Classics Circuit: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction on Tour, and still working at The Iliad. There’s something pleasant about reading it, even if it’s not exactly a book I’d choose to snuggle up with.
I’m glad that you have been able to get some serious ideas about Foxglove and make a lot of progress on that. Keep up the momentum that you have found and keep working on it. Refine that story! Trust that the situation will be resolved, and focus on the work that has been placed in front of you, and you will see them come together.
I’m so happy to see your progress on Foxglove! It sounds like things are really coming together. Keep it up!