Diary of Being a Writer; Week 121

Letting things rest.

This week I have decided to have a break from my WIP and do other things — writery things but not that writery thing. I was tying myself up in knots trying to go straight back in after finishing the first draft to make it better, and it wasn’t working.
So here I am taking a break. Giving it some time. Relaxing. I am totally relaxed!!!!!

The plan is to work through some of the exercises I haven’t done for some of the courses that I have paid for — namely, Dream Author and AWC’s How to Write Crime. I did end up doing all of the exercises from the Scribblers course.
Oh and I still haven’t finished listening to some of the lectures about writing that were on the Great Courses Plus that I subscribed to when homeschooling hit us. So I have plenty to do without thinking about the WIP and how to improve it. I’m not thinking about it you’re thinking about it!

It feels weird to be deliberately avoiding my WIP rather than just subconsciously avoiding it by procrastinating or falling down a research rabbit hole.

I am still thinking about my WIP, but they are abstract thoughts at the back of my mind. Nothing concrete, nothing useful. Just vague ‘must do that better’ or ‘how do I make that more interesting?’