the week of writing unpredictably

This was the week that four bloggers of my acquaintance all, in somewhat different ways, threw out the plans they’d made and started to make some real progress.

1. First of all, a big “Welcome back!” to Bel at alreadynotpublished, who posted again after a hiatus: “Oh, that’s why…”

2. Maggie at Maggie Madly Writing wrote a “July Camp Update” about how she made progress at Camp NaNoWriMo.

3. Laura Stanfill had a six-day writing retreat, and found her novel-in-progress going in unexpected directions as she finished her second draft(!!).

4. The fourth one was me, as I reported last time, when I gave up my plan and started to get some real work done.

More of part two of my story is posted. In this part, two of my characters met for the first time. I’ve been writing about one of them for over twenty years and the other for about fifteen, so this is something of an event.

And one of them immediately started putting some serious moves on the other one.

Which was not part of any plan of mine.

But I immediately started to see how useful this could be. One of them (the aggressor, in this case) is not very verbal, and several readers have wanted to know more about her. If this flirtation turns into something serious, it could be a way to accomplish that (without getting into a lot of exposition, which I don’t want to do).

One the other hand, for writers who really want to follow a detailed plan and no fooling around, there’s this.