January 24, 2005
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I fixed it! All by myself! My computer was not working and I still don’t know why. I found the wire that the dog had pulled out and that should have fixed it but it didn’t. Anyway, I’m back.
I have read everything I’ve written, all 46,000 words of the novel. And I reconnected. I have a new character and I’ve reconciled myself with making one of the characters bad. I’m resistant to it but in order to have conflict between the other characters, it has to happen.
I have an article that I was supposed to turn in today, but I had no computer so I should be working on that. I still have not paid my bills. Instead, I have been pouring over the paper, looking at all the jobs. I feel conflicted like I shouldn’t be pursuing a job that doesn’t involve writing or editing. But, for example, there’s one right down the street from me, working for a title company. I could come home for lunch and parking’s free. What’s that worth? Not to mention the price of gas and the time spent in transit that jobs downtown would require. But there’s one working in a law library, which I have done, so it’s one of the few jobs where I have experience. I have this odd, gut feeling like I should hold off, for some reason. I can’t imagine why.
Well, I hope you all had a great weekend, I’m going to bed.
Comments (3)
Hope you can get on with your novel and make a decision about your job.
just like there is no such thing as a human who is all good or all bad, your characters can be the same way… the interesting ? is what makes your character act bad some of the time and like an angel other times?
Hey that’s great news on your novel! What an invigorating thing to reconnect with it and the people inside it. I agree with jerjonji, there’s good and bad in all of us. Sometimes the bad guy is much more fun to write – inside him/her you can do and say what you can’t in the real world. It can be disturbing however to find that a character you like has some really ugly stuff or says or does something that just feels distasteful. Weird how that all works, isn’t it?