Sounds like a plan?

I am ploughing on with the story at a not very quick pace of about 1800 words a week (as much as I can read in 10 minutes at the Richmond Writers' Circle. My plan is to drive on to the end just to get it finished in a reasonable first draft form. The second draft will be to iron out all the plot problems that I have created in the first. There are likely to be quite a lot of these! The third draft will be to make sure that all the characters behave in character. The fourth will be to make sure the dialogue is in tune with character. After that I don't know but I'm determined to cross bridges as I come to them.

A new start!

Finally, I've got myself started again! This is good for me - usually when I give up on something I stay given up. This time I'm going to be a bit less ambitious.

The good thing is that I did persevere with the story. I now have about 35,000 words of first draft. So I'm about a third of the way towards the sort of length that publishers are suppose to prefer. I've decided to press on if I can and at least have a go at getting it published. There are a few people at the Richmond Writer's group in much the same boat so that is, in a way, encouraging.

Tiny steps

Really only a few lines today but I think I much improved Scene 4 which is the next I shall read at the Writer's Circle. I hear of professional writers getting down ten or more pages a day. I am sure that that is achievable. Gosh, I must be envied by would be writers who have a real job and families. I read sometimes of people who write between 10.00 in the evening and 2.00 in the morning. They make me feel guilty. At the Writer's circle we can each read our stuff for about 10 minutes - which seems fair. So if I write at that rate I shall do about 1,200 words a week. Not a lot I suppose but it does mean that if I can keep it up for a year I can do about 50,000 words. Even if they are not so great ones I shall feel as if I'm on my way.