Plot development

My view earlier today. The weather goes through an amazing series of changes each day, and this was just one of them. I have a mind to set up a tripod on my deck and take a picture every 30 minutes or so when the weather changes. It would be an amazing collage of different images. I loved the rainbow in the picture above :)

Will write more later. I tried to recover this weekend. Took a little time off, did a couple errands, trying to get back on a normal schedule. I should be back up and running tomorrow. I need to be. I need to get my changes finished in one week and be done with this so that I can go on a trip! I think I might go for 10 days :)

Plot development...of my book and my life

Also starting to write my fiction novel a little more. I need to sit down and do some planning of it. L reminded me of the National Novel Writing Month soon -- maybe I'll do that this year! It would motivate me to work on this every day. I need to get some plot outlines and things like that going. Right now I'm just writing different chapters from different characters' points of views, just to see what comes out. It turns out that I like one of my characters more than the original main character, so I think I might have her be my main heroine. It's kind of like doing a test drive for characters. I've sketched out all my character groups, but not my main characters, so now I think I am ready to build the story.

I need a little rest and relaxation and recovery, but for now, working 8 hour-days again is nice enough. After I'm done, I need a serious meditation retreat with myself. I need to reconsider what I want out of life. I feel a bit like I just emerged from digging out of a hole for 8 years and now I'm looking around, wondering what to do. Do I still like the same things? (of course I do, I'm just expressing my state of general confusion and disorientation for the time being) What do I do with my life? (clearly, take a vacation and go back to my job that is waiting for me, but still...I mean bigger picture what do I want to do with my life?)

No matter what I decide, it sure is nice to be able to look outside at that view all day. I really appreciate it and it makes me smile every time I look up. :)