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How much did I say I wrote yesterday? 500 words? Doesn't matter, because it's gone. I started completely over this morning and wrote 513 words. I knew yesterday that none of what I was writing would survive. My instincts are enough to know when I'm writing just to write and when I'm writing because the story wants out. Yesterday was just about word count. Today, though, that was story.
I had gone to work yesterday with those 500 words in my mind, wondering where to go next, but knowing in my heart it was no good. Then later I read Brian Hodge's Storytellers Unplugged entry "Leave It All On the Page" and I connected so well with what he was saying, I knew I had to stop holding myself back. The problem with this particular story is that it's so insanely ridiculous, I was trying to make it seem as plausible as I could. Forget that, it's a wild story, and I have to let it be wild because anything less isn't respecting the story for what it really is. So I started over this morning with no restraints and just let the story be what it is.
And what is it? Not telling. But here's a few pics I had to research for it.
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