Yeah, that was me this whole week.
I just spent Thanksgiving holiday in NYC where the Slayer book takes place, and good god it was amazing.
I bought a camera and spent a goodly amount of time taking snapshots of people and places, but several of those shots were where I imagined several scenes in my book taking place.
It was awe-inspiring to say the least.
On top of that, I have discovered the 'New Moon' Score (no, not soundtrack, SCORE), and it's exactly the kind of music I love to listen to: swelling strings, harps, and beautiful piano solos. Which, combined with my overall enthusiasm for being in New York, has led me to write again. I had horrible writer's block for the longest time; coupled with the fact that I lost 60 pages of work due to a stupid editing error. I got them back (thank god that I had the foresight to send each chapter to my email to work on/edit them while I was at my 'real' job), but that still left me with an uninspired feeling and I was generally unhappy that I had to 're-edit' those 60 pages. Again.
But now, with a climactic point in the story finally drawing closer, I feel the acute need to get the rest of this story out of my brain and on to paper before I kill myself trying. Hopefully there will be no more roadblocks from here on out; I have a general idea with how I'm going to end the book (with a few hazy scenes still being mapped out, due to debate on whether or not I feel that they will be necessary to be included or written in a certain manner), and hopefully that means that I will remain somewhat on schedule and have the book done by the middle of January AT THE LATEST. I don't like pushing back a schedule once I've posted a general deadline for myself, but I think in this case it was necessary.
I have a friend of mine editing the first part of the book for me (April, you will probably be rather unhappy with me when we meet again, because I've re-written a few sections that you may have already edited lol), and as soon as she's done with that 307 page monster pdf I sent her, we will began work on Part 2. Soon after that, I hope to have my publisher all worked out and ready for when we finally get the two parts of the book organized into one.
So with that said, I'm going to return to writing in order to stay on schedule. :)
