Thank you Rachel

I was talking to Rachel the other night about how my writing is like BLOCKED and how I was getting kind of stressed out about it. I told her that I had a project that I'd written almost 40-50 pages on, but then I'd just stopped. She said that I might not like hearing this, but she thought that the best thing I could do was just take the best things out of that, and start over. She said that maybe if I tried to do the same thing in a different way, it might trigger something that will work. At the time I said, yeah, yeah, uh-huh, i'll try.

But I did that tonight. I started thinking about my most recent failed project, a book called "Sacrifice." I've always really loved the plot, and it would be an intense thriller if I did it right. So I pretty much just started free thinking, writing down anything that came to mind that i thought might be cool, and I came up with something that I'm really excited to start writing. It's very different, but it keeps the basics of the plot intact while making the main character more likable and the deaths more sudden and upsetting. I can't wait!

So thank you to Rachel for listening to me bitch about not being able to write, and thank you for your very wise advice.

Woo-hoo, i think the writing machine is back in order!