keeping score
Perhaps you know I’ve been struggling with my story. I’d set an impossible goal and written an impossible problem: I’d vowed to write an unwritable book. For sure it was unwritable — the first hundred pages (all the further I’d got) were long, sloppy rambling conversations toward a climax that made no sense. I had interesting characters in a well-drawn and tense environment, but not really. Although I’d promised myself I’d write through to the end, what I needed was a re-write.
Discovering the solution to the work’s central problem — solving the crime, if you will, has been the big boost I needed to reconnect with Keeping Score. It’s the string of +970, +1100, +800 on your card, or the back to back jacks. It may just be the cheap rationalization I needed to embark upon that re-write I’ve been itching to do, but it feels like a whole new game.
I’m tempted to pin the calendar again, 12/31 and all that, but for now I’ll just write and keep writing until it’s time, for whatever reason, to stop.
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