Soft music, quiet house
I have to wait until late at night to be able to write, because most of the day this house is noisy - especially on the weekends when my daughter is home from school. She's a non-stop pop-music person these days... and then there's those arguments between her and her brother.At night, the house is usually quiet enough for writing. Tonight at 9:40 the power went out. There's a heavy storm outside. My daughter came out of her bedroom with a loud yowling sound and woke up her brother who was sleeping near me on the couch. She refused to consider sleeping on the other couch and I thought my writing evening was shot until (by wonderful good luck) the power was restored about 10 minutes later. Yay! She went back to bed and I got my computer booted up... and then Keith wanted to talk.
I took good advantage of his friendliness by asking him how he thought I should write my upcoming love scene between Alyssa and her boyfriend. He gave me some good ideas. Then I explained in detail why I can't write my stories except at night (usually). He kindly put some soft, unobtrusive music [Direct TV's Soundscapes] on the stereo and went back to bed himself and left me to it.
Writing started out rough but after a few paragraphs I got into the scenes and wrote to my goal quickly - then added a little more because I was having fun. I stopped right before a scene that I know will be fun to write, so maybe that'll help get me going tomorrow. This is actually a technique suggested by Sol Stein in his book, How to Grow a Novel. Let's see if it works.
Tonight I wrote 1449 words on The Alyssa Project, bringing the total word count to 31477.
It is still "early" for me so I'm going to work on that revision of The Scribe of Irohila - something I've put off long enough.
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