Stuck

I've been in a funk all weekend. It's true. Just ask my wonderfully tolerant husband. I'm stuck with my plotting and completely stressed out.

I know what my overall book idea is, what the main plot is and what one of the subplots is. I just don't know how I plan on getting the ideas done. Ok, that sounds incredibly dumb now that I've typed it out on the screen. As in 'tell me again why you think you can write a book?' kind of dumb. But what I mean is, I don't have all the actual scenes mapped out and still have a few major decisions to make about plot elements that will steer the unfolding of the main plot.

I think I just need to sit down and spend the time actually mapping it out, pen to paper. I've been trying to do it in stolen moments over the last couple of weeks while at work or otherwise engaged. I thought once I had the idea formed solidly enough in my head, the actual plot points and scenes, etc. would just sort of fall into place. Not so. Anyway, that will be the goal for this week. Plotting, plotting, plotting so I can begin writing, writing, writing.

I will also be drafting a loose schedule to try to live my new life by. I had a bit of a freak out this weekend trying to figure out how the hell I was going to fit 'write a novel' and 'exercise regularly' into what already feels like a comfortably full life. So, I've decided that at least to start, I'm going to have to schedule my time and be pretty disciplined about sticking to the schedule. Hmm. Yeah. Have I mentioned that there is nothing in the universe I am worse at than being disciplined? About anything? Even things I love? It's true. Well, ok. It's not true. I'm worse at math than anything else in the universe. But discipline is a close second. *big sigh*

In other news, I changed my blog template back, since it was taking me so damn long to figure out the other template. Ben was going to help me work on it today, but Blogger wouldn't let me republish all morning. So, we're back with Minima for now. I'm hoping to have the new one up and running sometime this week.

Goodnight, sleep tight and don't let the vampires bite! (unless they're really sexy vampires and you kind of want them to...)