I took an afternoon nap earlier, to make sure I wouldn't be too tired to write tonight. Well, it is nearly 4am and I finally got done. The Alyssa Project is 9389 words long now, as I added 1133 words tonight. Earlier tonight I did some "writing to the prompt" using the suggestion in Judy Reeves' book:
A Writer's Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse for the Writing Life
The prompt for today is "write about the making of beds". I wrote a piece using characters from another novel I want to write - one I've been mulling over and writing at for about a year now - with the working title of "River Girl". This will be a historical novel about the town I live in. I had Clara (the river girl) and her brother making flower beds for their mother. Because the ground here is so rocky, I have a hard time getting anything to grow so ... I had them moving the rocks around to make two identical flower beds and trying to decide where to find dirt to put in them. This is a BIG problem for me too... you would just have to see this rock pile to believe how challenging this can be.
Anyhow, it was great to be writing to a prompt again. I would like to do that every day but I know, life being what it is, I'll get distracted again. With every distraction is an opportunity to return to practice.
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