Returning to normal

No doubt you're thinking I've been quiet lately. What can I say? You're so right!

Confession time - I haven't been writing. Well, I have, but not as much as I should. But I have more excuses (don't I always? I tell you, I could make a fortune writing excuses for people if only I could find an outlet).

First it was the boiler (now fixed) and then it was my computer. That took a month to get fixed. First the motherboard went, and then the memory (if only MY memory could be fixed so easily).

Finally, the computer returned to me in January. And then my DVD/CD writer decided it didn't want to burn anything to CD. Indeed, it didn't recognise there was a CD in the drive. My work colleague came to look at it, announced that nothing was wrong - and then promptly discovered that the computer wouldn't give the CD back. IT KIDNAPPED MY CD!! Thankfully it was a blank CD but hey, that's a problem when the drive won't open.

So he took away my drive and now I'm waiting. But at least I can type.

I've taken a short break from my "2 pages a day" writing regime. It was going well, but not necessarily in the right direction. I've taken time out to learn to plot by looking more closely at Vogler's Writer's Journey. It helped. I looked at my story so far and thought I had no "call to adventure", making it a teensy bit hard for my main character to "refuse the call". Sigh.

But looking closer, my inciting incident is probably the 'call to adventure' - but that is a death in the family, so the main character can hardly refuse that. Unless she DENIES it. Hmm. And that's the first stage of grief, isn't it? Oooh!

I guess I'm going to be quiet again. I'm off to write . . .