I stayed up until almost 1am last night trying to finish a rather difficult scene in EoG. I even woke up at 6am this morning and went back to writing until 7 just to get that much closer to the end. In the end I only wrote 6 pages or so, but the worst of this scene is over. Somehow, within those six pages, I managed to finish chapters 6 and 7, and am nearly done with chapter 8. Even though this story is sort of challenging, what I love about it is how a myriad of possibilities open up at each twist and turn. I can spend weeks figuring out exactly how a scene is going to go and, when I finally sit down to write it, it's like doors open up and I see how many different ways the scene could go, each changing the story, some slightly and some drastically. I think that feeling is the best part of writing.
This scene that I've been worrying over since my hermitage is a fight scene, the first for the story. I'm sort of fond of reading fight scenes and not at all fond of writing them, so I think a lot of my angst was simply fear and dread. I have to thank Stephen King and the Dark Tower Series for giving me that final push to just write it and get it over with. When I got home yesterday, I spent about five or six hours just listening to Wizard and Glass before I finally jumped up from my bed, ran my cat around for a few minutes and went back to my comupter and started writing. Listening to the Tower Series always makes me feel a little crazy, so I'm not actually sure if what I wrote was good, or even makes sense. I'm not going to think about it too much until Saturday when I can get some feedback from the Writer's Circle. My goal right now is to finish chapter 8.
Gareth is taking his first steps from being a boy to becoming a man. I keep yelling at him to move it and hurry up, but he is a meticulous one, and will not be hurried for anything. Perhaps I can learn something about the value of patience from him...
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