Such A Long Drive Exercise

Completed - 1573 words.

I'm not surprised that I wrote this much but I'm actually kind of disappointed with the results. I don't like what I wrote. I didn't like it as it came out but I kept going. That is the important part. I forced myself to overcome that critic. That was good. I don't think that the entire piece is worthless but I felt like I jumped tense or point of view or something. One paragraph just doesn't fit for whatever reason. I think if I let it sit for a while and come back to it I might be able to make more sense of it than I can right now.

This was about Terese driving across Arizona trying to find the good doctor that was not a character until last week. A couple of things I know that this piece will need to be expanded on.

1) Setting, I need to get that right. I know what I want to say but getting it out is a little bit different. You know that almost right word thing is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug? Tonight I was the lightning bug.

2) I have to show how Terese can see different things at the same time. I know this is going to be a challenge and I have to be able to come up with some way of showing it to the reader. I am going to have to focus on this part going forward. It is very important in my story.

3) Transitions. Need to have them and need to flow smoothly. They sucked in this piece. I felt like I was writing stuff that I just wrote but in a slightly different manner.

But all things considered...I may be the my own harshest critic but it got done and not only that this was the most words I had written in my time sessions. I can only hope that I can continue with putting out consistent volumes of words. The things I am doing now are laying the groundwork for the novel itself. These works, while not perfect are going to be a goldmine of material to pull from.