La Vie Boheme

11 days and counting!

This is the eleventh straight day I've sat myself down to write for several hours a day. GO ME! This has been therapeutic for me in so many ways. I feel like I'm really getting somewhere, not just with this novel, but with my life. I may be unemployed, but by golly, I'm writing a novel!

I love my villain. He's a wonderfully villain-y villain. But as I've said, he's not pure black. I understand completely why he's doing what he's doing. Everything he's done so far, he's doing out of his own arrogance combined with a misguided sense of loyalty and love. Which, for me, makes him the best kind of villain ever. :)

I spent a huge chunk of yesterday reading Betsy Lerner's Forest for the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers. I'm over halfway through now, and I want to own this book. And soon. There's so much information in it, not to mention a considerable amount of encouragement. I feel like I'm on the right track here.

So far I've just been doing my work in the morning, then spending the afternoon goofing off or doing housework or whatever. This week I'm going to focus on spending some time in the afternoons writing as well, see if it works or if it's too much. Maybe not every day yet, but say three days a week. Not today though. Today I'm rewarding myself with a second viewing of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Whee!