The title, Novella: College Journal Manga is several years old now. I first used it back in mid 2002 when the first editions of the so-called "Draft 2" comic were published. It fit with the writing style I had at the time, but I've grown tired of it over the last few years. Today it seems an ungainly string of words as well as plain.
A few weeks ago, I began quietly working on a rewrite to Novella. I hadn't worked on the story seriously since November of last year, and in that time I had many new ideas. Typically it takes me a long time to come up with new ideas for a story, which is partly why it has taken me years to write one at all. Perhaps that would be different if I had been writing full time, but I'd rather be well paid IT guru who writes on the side than a starving young writer.
The sound of the nearby highway always comforted her.
She could never explain why, of course. It was something about the sound of activity, of something moving or working that wasn't completely automated. The sound of the highway wafted into her apartment, falling onto the pale blue carpeted floor, a mix of stone and metallic. It was her personal reminder that she wasn't alone.
In about a week, Revision 5 Novella Outline is going to be released. Normally, I would be excited. Or, at least, I'd expect to be excited. When the release date for Revision 4 drew near some months ago, I could barely contain myself. I may have been tired and exhausted, but I knew I was producing more for the story than every has been produced. But this week and this revision, I feel disappointed, even uninterested.
You see, I haven't worked on the outline for almost two weeks.
Sometimes I honestly don't know what I'm doing withNovella anymore.
It seems since I posted the Revision 4 Outline sometime last month, I've been at a lost with the whole project. In the last revision, I had clearly defined goals I felt I could fulfill. I was to reformat the outline into a clearly defined sections, breaking up the 13 page list that predominated the previous revision. I added Character Bios so that I could finalize details like height and eye color. And finally, I spend a great deal of time expanding the first chapter with a detailed plot.
Aside from cringing in pain for several hours this afternoon, I haven't done much that I consider "useful" today. Thankfully, the Tomato Soup of Doom seems on it's way out of my system now. (Note to self: Never use soy milk in condensed tomato soup -- at least the "Healthy Request" kind.)
Earlier today I did manage to get out of the apartment and work on Novella for a few hours. I'm trying to make a habit of traveling to a coffee shop and working on the outline over a Caramel Cooler. Drink bad, writing good. I figure the two ultimately cancel each other out.
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