La Vie Boheme

On another note:

I am beginning to suspect the real trick to finishing a novel is to write every day. Writing every day gets you into the world, into the characters, and things start to blossom. I've been told by many people that the last third or so of The Host is much weaker than the stuff I wrote during NaNoWriMo last year. And writing The Sword in the Mound has been so hard precisely because I haven't written every day. When I do sit down to write, I have to re-establish where I am and who I'm writing about, instead of living with them in the forefront of my mind. They don't have as much room and time to grow on their own when I only give them a few hours a few times a week. I'm starting to feel frustrated with all of the other things going on in my life that help keep me from writing. Specifically school. Good thing the semester's almost over.