Revision: The Unhappy Word

I think revision is my unhappy word of the month. I am floundering to get things going with it, and am mostly just piddling around with my manuscript instead of getting any real work done. It's kind of sad actually.

I have about sixty thousand words on the screen and am about twenty to forty thousand short of what I need for the finished product.

I have this one scene where my heroine and her fake boyfriend are fighting werewolves. They defeat the werewolves... but then the werewolves just disappear. I didn't give any explanation as to where they went and I have no idea what to do with it.

My dialogue is pretty generic too. I need to do some serious revision on that, add a bunch of scenes (which I have not yet written), add about thirty thousand words, fix scenes that are about as dead as can be, and still do outlining on one of my other novels and worldbuilding on another one after that.

Remind me again why I wanted to be a writer? No, seriously. Please do.

The book I'm working on right now, Plain Jane, is the first of a trilogy but the only one that I've done any real work on. I have most of everything figured out but I stil have character sketches, worldbuilding, plotting and a bunch of other crap to do. And on top of all that, we're going though a bankruptcy, losing our house, have lost two vehicles, and are trying to get out of the last house before we're locked out. Oh, and someone got into our house and stole two hand guns, a PS 2 system, and our X Box 360. Talk about kicking someone when they're down...

Anywho, I've been pretty lax with this blog but I'm hoping that once things slow down I'll have a chance to do more writing and blogging. Right now, I'm struggling with just the writing.

To all you other writers out there:

PRAY.

It's the only advice I can give.

Write with hope,

                    ~ Ashlie (I've changed the way I spell it)