{"id":151,"date":"2013-09-23T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2013-09-23T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T17:45:10","slug":"the-spy-from-atlantis-draft-done-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"The Spy From Atlantis: draft done, surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago I wrote this post<\/a> about brain momentum and my hope that I could bleed off some of that momentum into a novel.<\/p>\n

That…didn’t entirely happen. I mean, I channeled<\/em> that momentum into a novel. That much is clear. But…okay, look. I finished the draft of that novel, The Spy from Atlantis<\/em> today. First draft, all done, there we go, book. That means that in the last month I’ve written five short stories and 2\/3 of a book. This…is a personal record. (I still have two days left in that month, and the thought scares me a little.)<\/p>\n

Early this year I got completely stuck and bogged down on this book. And I eventually wrote, “MORE BOOK GOES HERE” in the manuscript (in the place where more book went! and I was right, more book did go there!). And then I reminded myself that I was not on deadline, that there was no reason to make myself miserable writing that book right then, that I could just write something else<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So I did.<\/p>\n

And then two weeks ago, more or less, I opened the file and wrote a thousand words like it was nothing. And I knew what other words went in it. It was just a matter of letting them out. Elise says Mike called this “finding the spigot.” I can’t explain it, but that spigot got found.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I’m not yet sure it’s off. On Friday, when I was assessing what was left, I was pretty sure I was going to finish today. And there is a part of my brain that chimed in, “Oh good! Then we can work on [three other story ideas] on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, before things get really going for Farthing Party.”<\/p>\n

PLS SEND HALP.<\/p>\n

Seriously, there is stuff to do, and my wrists and back could really<\/em> use a break. So…maybe an average of less than 4K a day is something to shoot for. Just a thought. The three rules I made, once it became clear that I was going to be writing this book NOW NOW NOW were:
\nNo ruining my hands.
\nNo ruining my health.
\nNo ruining my relationships.<\/p>\n

So I have done things like continuing to eat the same reasonable-or-better levels of food, continuing to work out and sleep, continuing to get together with friends and family, etc. They are good rules.<\/p>\n

I just. It will be nice if I don’t need quite such a reminder that they are<\/em> the rules for awhile here.<\/p>\n

Still! Book! I am pleased, and I had fun<\/em>. All the fun that was missing on this book earlier this year was back in abundance. Yay go book. I will revise it when I’m not in Montreal. I will let it marinate for a bit. But in the meantime: book! Yay go book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago I wrote this post about brain momentum and my hope that I could bleed off some of that momentum into a novel. That…didn’t entirely happen. I mean, I channeled that momentum into a novel. That much is clear. But…okay, look. I finished the draft of that novel, The Spy from Atlantis today. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spy","tag-stupid-brain-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}