What happened to Ginnie?
What happened to Ginnie...
After I wrote part three, intending it to be a short story for the Kissing in the Rain Collection, I got stuck. Like bogged down, I had no idea which way I was going with the story. I did not have a plan; I am a pantser. Yeah, I know you pro writers are laughing, but this is what happened to Ginnie. I couldn't make my initial thought come together. Then I read something online about things authors hate to read. High and several times on the list was about cheating husbands and initially, I was considering that. Even though I honestly don't like that either. I have trouble watching movies and series about it. I struggled through season 1 of Dr. Foster on Netflix and still haven't brought myself to finish season 2. The writing is great, it is just one of those things. So like I was saying I was stuck. Like tires in the mud. The story came to a screeching halt.
I was so stuck I had run out of ideas of how to move the story forward. I was also dealing with my father's death and the subsequent knowledge that my MIL had had a horrible stroke leaving her debilitated and disabled in a way that she could not take care of herself. So I was forced to walk away from my business and my writing.
During the later part of the pandemic year 2020, I returned slowly to my writing.
To my relief and surprise, Ginnie started unfolding in my imagination.
I created a new cover and retitled Ginnie to Ginnie Transformed in August 2020.
Years later, Last year in October, I picked up my writing, reread all of my WIPS, and all of a sudden, in mid-October, Ginnie started telling me her story. I was writing a chapter a day.
Note a.o.y = as of yesterday
Oct 10 chapter 5 4292 words
Oct 11 chapter 6 4311 words
Oct 12 took a break, watched Netflix, and played Xbox
Oct 13 chapter 7 3948 words
Oct 14 chapter 8 4203 a.o.y 4219
Had 4-day migraine /depression
Oct 18 chapter 9 4499 a.o.y 6522
Oct 19-22 chapter 10 4623 a.o.y 5233
Oct 23 chapter 11 4920 a.o.y 5016
Oct 26 chapter 12 829
Total 34,370 words in 11 writing days.
Or 16 calendar days.
In November, my writing started to slow down some, but I feel like I still accomplished a reasonable amount of writing. I did not participate in NaNoWriMo 2020. I actually started the hashtag #nanowrimounofficially
Chapter 13 6167 words
Chapter 14 4687 words
Chapter 15 5921 words
Chapter 16 4190 words
Chapter 17 5475 words then became 6050 words
Chapter 18 5408 words this chapter took a few days
Chapter 19 8577
In December,.
Chapter 20 7295 words
Chapter 21 4348 words
Chapter 22 5929 words
January 1st, 2021, I wrote chapter 23, 5451 words
by Jan 2nd, I was out for the count.
I got sick with covid and barely wrote anything for a month and a half.
In March, I declared mutiny against setting goals and managed to write
Chapter 24 word count over 6820
Chapter 25 word count over 6k now at 8468
plus, I wrote two micro stories
March 17 Chapter 26 word count 4502k
March 19 Chapter 27 word count 8236k
March 28 Chapter 28 word count 4416k
33,442 words added to Ginnie Transformed
March 31st, my birth mother passed, and I went into grieving.
April 3rd, I finally came up with a blurb for Ginnie Transformed.
April 10-16 Chapter 29 word count 4388k
I read 8 books in the month of April. I didn't feel much like writing and wanted to disappear, so I lost myself reading in other worlds and planets, created by other authors, mostly through sci-fi romance.
I will just leave that right there for you.
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