Focused?

Not really. I haven’t been consistent in what I want to do, but painfully consistent in my inability to stay on task. I didn’t add as much as I’d hoped, but I did clean up a number of problems. The last few months have been a real struggle with my writing. Easily distracted. Unable to hold the story together. I’ve written a lot on paper, but I haven’t been able to figure out how it translates from paper to computer. Admittedly, everything on paper isn’t so much story as backstory. Answering questions like why do they do what they do? What are their weaknesses? How are characters related? If I want to be a writer, I must write. I’m nervous by how often my mind has been blank, only able to concentrate on the most surface thoughts. I know it’s a problem when I catch weird errors, like rounding down in my checkbook instead of rounding up. I’m making a number of changes to see if it helps. Today, I’ll see if I’m able to move forward in the story now that I’ve worked out several mistakes.