I is Back

Holy cow, that was a long vacation, wasn't it?

I've been back to work for the last one week, but it's only now that I'm getting to fiction writing again. There was a lot to catch up on. 

How were your holidays?

I haven't set any major new goals or resolutions this year when it comes to my fiction writing. The previous goals still stand-- 800 words a day, every day, until the first draft is finished. Then, I'll go back and revise. If I can have a finished, ready-to-submit novel by the end of this year, I'll have achieved my goals. 

In the month that I've been away from the writing, I've had some ideas and tangents that could possibly be explored, but for the most part, I've found that I'm somewhat disconnected from the story. 

Today or tomorrow, whenever time permits, I'm going to give it a read-through, see what scenes I have, and maybe organize them on index cards. I'm at a point in the novel that I don't really know where I'm going and what blanks I've left unfilled, so I need to fill those in for the sake of the story and what's to come. I've forgotten a large part of what I wrote. 

It's time to revisit. 354 words so far today. It's taking a lot more effort to get back into the writing. Oh, why did I ever stop?