Video of a Novel: Day 59

"Now I have lost a great deal of time..."

Well, after a week of sickness, I'm recovering, and feeling quite a bit like Steinbeck in Working Days, when he writes, "Now I have lost a great deal of time. I have been remiss and lazy, my concentration I have permitted to go under the line of effort. If this had been the first time I should be very sad. But I am always this way. I can concentrate and under some circumstances I can work. My job is to get down to it and now. For all the pressures, there’s only one person to blame and I must force him into it..."

There is only one person to blame.

Well, isn't that true.

As I "get down to it" this week, I want to revamp the scene I talked about last week, add a terrifying and heart-stopping conflict. Not sure exactly how to go about it, but I want to turn this fluffy avoidance of conflict into a sort of shocking gateway into the rest of the book. I think I can do it. I just have to figure out how.

All in today’s video below…