Writing.

It's been nearly three months since my last update. Why is it I only update this thing when I'm going through something heavy?

Today was an interesting day. Unexpected conflicts. Uncertain resolutions. Some conflicts yet to be resolved.

I've been writing a lot more of my novel. I've sort of started over. I still may use the 100-odd pages I wrote last year, but since I took such a long break this past spring/summer, I find it quite difficult to "get back into my groove."

Whatever I write now seems disconnected from what I wrote then.

I've also altered the opposition slightly such that a rewrite is necessary, anyway.

I've done heaps of research and written more regularly the past month. However, most of what I've written has been exercises from a writing workshop book I bought. I'm trying to write with more continuous conflict and tension, bringing a mix of emotion to every page.

I've concluded that the primary reason it was so difficult continuing the novel was I'd spent so much time outlining, and with such thoroughness, that I'd essentially "written" the darn thing already. I couldn't bring myself to actually write the real deal because I would only be repeating myself, which is no fun. I lost the momentum.

So, with this new and improved opposition in the works, I'm striving to be more spontaneous, less deliberate, and more open to straying from the very basic revised outline I've produced.

Here goes nothing.

Or everything.