Did my original fic morning pages this week, also finished the latest episode of TD, which brings the remaining episodes down to two. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. I will do my boy Connor right, and once that's done, I will have the time to really bring my new fiction project into focus. Up until now, I've mostly been dabbling with outlines. And I do mean that literally, because what I've been writing in my morning pages doesn't count as fictional prose. Ocassionally, I'll slip into something that is half-prose, half-outline, but right now, it is musings on what could occur in the story. And since I seem to be in a sustainable place with that exercise, I'm sticking with it for the time being. I really do come up with some interesting ideas this way that I might not if I were writing a linear fiction story right off the bat.

I anticipate finishing TD by Fall, then using NaNoWriMo to kick-start the process of turning my musings into an actual tale. This five-month-away goal makes me feel safe, because it means, for now, I can write ten contradictory things in my morning pages and then ten more until I find the idea that suits me best.

However, writing the new story will have to compete with editing my old novel. One story is in the experimental, expansive stage, the other is in the brutal slash-and-trim phase. The contrast ought to prove interesting.

Morning pages total for this week: 2,202 words.