Can't Stop

So I'm done novel writing for the summer, between broken computers and lost jobs and all kinds of shit life has thrown at me I managed to write 145 pages rounding out the writing at the end of Chapter 8. I've been done for about a week now and I've been working on my webcomic project (lord knows I can never just exist or anything) and I've come to find that I actually miss writing the novel. Don't get me wrong I love Black Dogs (Webcomic in the making), but I feel like I've been trapped in a room with a sibling I didn't know I had all summer and now that we're free I kind of miss them.

Writing the novel hasn't been easy as stated in my previous posts, Ch 7 and 8 turned out to be pretty difficult but overall it's been a crazy love hate relationship. Sometimes I would go out of my way not to write, just to back off but I always went back, I almost stopped writing earlier, but I was drawn back, I feel like I loved the writing and hated it to. The process of writing it had become like a living thing, not just the story, but everything that came with writing it too, it's an interesting almost mystical experience.

Writing Black Dogs isn't very different, well it is since Black Dogs is a steampunk, fantasy, epic and Publicity Tour is a Crime Thriller, but conceptually they're pretty similar when it comes to actually writing it. Working with a decent sized cast of characters and working out the plot while dealing with character relationships and interactions and subplots and all that good stuff, pretty much the same thing you do writing any big story...and yet I still find myself missing Publicity Tour, and a little sad that it has to go on the shelf while I go back to school. I've had other fiction students suggest steeplechasing it, but honestly I think steeplechase would only hinder the process, at this point I know where the story is going, changing perspectives and first to third person and putting it in script form, that's only necessary when you don't know where a piece is going, I never have that problem so it's not that useful for me. Though if I'm lucky I'll be able to do some writing on it in fiction seminar, who knows.

Either way, Publicity Tour is probably going to be on the shelf for the semester, and my blog title is going to become a lie because I'm going to blog about Black Dogs too, which is a project I'm really really really excited about and will go into on my next post, hopefully sometime before school starts on the 7th.