It just feels like plodding along today. Writing and writing. What I do in between inspiration... the other 99% of the time is just pure "work" (hardly working having fun!). But it is in the sense the words come, but aren't coherent, or consistent yet in voice or theme.
Getting to synthesis, i.e. when I am really cooking is taking a while. I feel like I am just a simmering pot, a watched one at that. Will I ever be done??? Ah Tom Petty said it best, "the waiting is the hardest part".
I like slow-cooked foods they seem tastier or less tough to swallow. All this talk of food, none of this talk of writing. Remember how we brought up the concept of linear processes and recipes? Well here we are again, full circle. This is the strangest pot of non-linear stew I've made. Well there are thankfully lots of variety in my kitchen, and mostly healthy. Mostly!
NOTE: I have progress to report. I've put together realistic scenes probably for the first 2/5 or 1/3 of the scenes that will be needed for the novel. These scenes will help me considerably, and are better than the outline (spider gram) I had so far, which didn't really do the job for me.
Have a bit of business work and helping out friend for the next two or three days, but then I plan to get my other writing organized and cleaned up, with a publication strategy and plan. Woo hoo! I definitely need to do this before mid-May. That would be a good Mother's Day present, eh??
