saturday

still not exactly sure where i'm trying to go. i bought a new journal to try to help ease things out- it's kind of working. i'm already over my 45 min. goal (that's time spent working towards writing, playing with ideas and jotting things down, not necessarily actual coherent composition... not so much of that yet...) and i'm still going. i want to have at least one page of actual "story" written tonight so i'll have something to jumpstart me tomorrow. i've been working with the characterization and dialogue ideas too. i really like the book. but i'm feeling intimidated by the length of the final piece and trying to think ahead maybe too far, which is maybe tamping down my "white hot..." (ha ha, kinda). agree that i need to start with a character, thinking too much about the abstract (forgiveness?). i'm going to have a little saturday night drink here and see if that loosens things up. wish me luck!