Thanks for the Memories

This last month has been crazy. I set a goal to do a blog every day, and I did pretty good if I do say so myself. Now I think it’s time for a change of pace. As I mentioned, with all this writing, I’ve reached back towards my novel. The goal of writing a daily blog has made that ultimate goal more of a challenge. So, I’m moving away from the daily blog.

When I set the goal to write daily, it was definitely a large mountain to climb. I’d written consistently before, but I always set a regiment that allowed some leeway on how often I sat down and wrote out an extended blog. This time, though, I wanted to write one every day, or at least post one every day. So to writing I went. Any moment I had, I was writing to give myself a decent pool to pull from if, for some reason, I didn’t get a chance to write out an entire blog one day. Any idea that popped into my head, I’d stop what I was doing and make a note to myself about it.

This constant idea slash writing flow got a little monotonous, not because of the writing, but because I needed a little more creativity and little less day to day. So, to break up the bloginess, I turned to the theology of my book. I read through it and created a timeline, both things that weren’t extremely cumbersome to make sure I still had “blog” energy. This ignited a new fire to finish my book.

When I say finish my book, realize I’ve written out the entire story. I have it all on paper right at this moment. In my last round of edits, I made some significant changes to make the story more cohesive and allow the protagonist in the story to shine a little more than he did before. With all these changes, I need to go back through and really smooth out the chapters to give it a good flow. That’s the challenge, really. I’m not creating anything new, just editing what I’ve already got. It’s never fun to criticize your own work, but it’s necessary.

So, while writing a blog has been a fire beneath my fingers, it’s taken away from the bigger goal of finishing my book. So, in the coming days, I won’t have entire blogs every day. I hope to stay consistent, of course, but that might be daily quotes or just a simple thought, with blogs mingled every couple of days. I know a lot of this is talking to myself, but that’s really what a blog is, right? Watching someone talk to themselves online as if someone else is listening.