April 18th, 2017:-
So, I’m writing again. I got over the difficult part, but I don’t know whether it was difficult because I had become tired, or it was difficult and so making me tired. One thing I have noticed over this project that while I know what I’m doing and where the story is going, the exuberance with which I started it, isn’t any longer here… I’m not feeling that excitement. I think I will again when I’ve reached the end, put the ms away for a couple of weeks, done some more research and come back to it for the second draft. I don’t think there will be anymore drafts after that because I don’t think I’ll be able to get it any better, and as a writer, I’m not one for endlessly chipping away at my work because there is always the fear that you can make the writing too contrived, too wooden and so on. One of the things that is always worth watching out for is that the spontaneity in the work does not vanish, and over-editing can certainly do that.
