Dateline 9-18-2017

Last night marked a successful night two in my efforts to rewrite my first novel. I'm now up to page 25 of 161 with the final page count growing thanks to the fact that I am adding more meat since the first draft was an adaptation of a 95-page screenplay that I had to keep short due to cinematic limitations.

I'm very proud of what I've done so far, not only because I'm back to work writing fiction which is my favorite thing in this life but I can also clearly see that all of my efforts toward this blog have improved my quality of non-screenplay writing.

This blog was still new when I wrote the first draft so my writing style was still heavily influenced by the way I taught myself to write through over two decades of devotion toward screenwriting. Due to the fact that when you write a script your words aren't the final product, the prose involved can tend to technical and dry.

During the first draft of the adaptation, I simply reformatted the document to read like a book and not a script while also trying to sweeten my words. At the time, I was very impressed by the reworked draft but even then felt that my lack of experience in writing standard prose made some sections read as if I were being lazy when I was actually doing the best that I can.

As I said yesterday, it's been three years since I've worked on any non-blog writing of my own and though I still don't feel like I'm where I want to be, I continually see improvements in my choice of wording and overall writing style.

Where I spent all week worrying whether or not I still had it in me to write long format fiction, I'm now excited to not only see that I can but I'm even more excited about how this blog is working as I envision in my ten-year plan to transition out of screenwriting and into writing books where I am free to explore what I want without investors' fears as to whether or not it will make money.

Alright, it's time to get this SNL review out of the way so I can get back to writing about Doug, the agoraphobic astronaut who struggles to fit in with this world.

Talk to you tomorrow with another update.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker