Lee Kemp

I found all manner of things to keep me from writing today, like tidying your desk again when you should be revising a day before your final exam. That was my day today but I got through it and added two lots of three pages to my short. The first lot got written. I didn’t need to re-read it to realise they were pump but they’d got me to where I had told myself I wanted to be when I stopped.

But I didn’t stop. I simply carried on, deleted the three crappy pages and made the transition work. I suppose problems can be like free standing walls. They will fall over if you run fast and hard enough at them. Especially when you can’t work out how to get over them.

I’m feeling quite pleased with myself. Who knows if the new pages are any good but the hard part is always getting to the end of the first draft. Then you can decide what its about and go back through and make it really about that.

I sometimes find that a struggle if I know where the story’s going. In this case I know what I want it to be about but I don’t know the story yet. A weird situation but I feel so good about having got here I’m not even gonna proof read this I’m just going to publish and be damned and read a bit more Cryptonomicon before I fall asleep. That boy can write!

Finally thanks to James Hull at Story Fanatic. Not only did I discover a great resource today that informed my writing but I found it because he linked to my blog. I couldn’t find an email address to say thankyou properly.

Another day’s shooting in London tomorrow.