Yes. I did argue with myself over that one. Only for a moment though. Needless to say, the chapter I have just written is my favorite so far. An action packed blur of fantastic.
On another note, now that the Christmas show 'The Mousetrap' is over I have more time than I've had since before the show before that show.... (Pack of Girls). I am able to go back to things I had previously abandoned, like keeping my desk clean, filing Kelly's hooves, eating real food, brushing my hair, sleep, exercise.. or -like the last week- I can just sit at my computer till two A.M and juggle University complications with the thirteenth chapter and eat licorice.
The Two unfortunate chapters that I wrote while 'The moustrap' was running are hilariously bad. I made a deal with myself to keep notes and edit when it was a whole (I do however brush up a chapter several chapters back as I write, It's a good way not to forget who went where, etc etc). They're bad because the precious moments I had to write them were short late-night sessions that resulted in jumpy, tired scenes written in paragraph blobs while i was half asleep drooling over my keyboard from tiredness.
This precipice that book is resting on warrants a new organisational system to better the organised chaos that was before. If I could find my camera underneath the pile's of breakdowns, notes and 'List's of names from various places' folders -then I would photograph this havoc and keep it as evidence of how my brain works. I was told once that I had 'complicated thought processes' I think It would be more suitable to call it 'mess'.
I have an entire wall of pictures, quotes and drawings. None of it from an outsiders point of view would appear to be related to anything. Just an assortment of 'stuff,' but Almost all of it has it's own relevance. The Bill Hammond postcards that have patterns that make me think of one characters tattoos. The freeze I got from an art museum in the capital that makes me thing of the youth in some of my characters. Bit's ripped from magazines that have 'her eyes' or 'his hair'. It isn't interesting to anybody else, but when I look at it it's a mind map. I've spread the 'written organisation' across two desks, and 18 notebooks. (when i say 'two desks' one is really just a gigantic trunk covered in arty stuff and stacks of paper). My box of 'planning stuff' is like -folder of chapter breakdowns, bits of paper, things to add, CHOCOLATE, inspirational things, CHOCOLATE, visual diary, CHOCOLATE. I don't know how all that chocolate got in there honest...
I have taken a step in the right direction. I now number my notebooks. There's notebook 3, notebook 4 and, yea no that's as far as I got... On the plus side, at least the planning part of this novel is there, shining through the mess like little beacons of exciting booky things to come.
This is a short post. I needed to vent my enthusiasm for what is becoming of the words i have written. I will leave you with some 'raging dub step'.
Combine them and you have a happy sandwich, and a message of this unusual pinnacle chapter. I don't always listen to dub step. see what this book has done to me. I do like it though...
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