i had a major breakthrough yesterday after i wrote the post for the day. i finished the first chapter in the first fiction novel i’ve ever written.

i realized something crucial as a result of walking through my mental position as related to this project—that i was caught up on the character sketch phase of the project because my characters need to experience certain scenarios for me to know who they really are.

so the thing is, i threw away the character sketch for my main character and just started writing. as the words rolled out in front of me, i made several choices about how my character would react to the scenarios i’ve decided have to happen to move the story forward.

as the story develops, i’ll have to maintain a log of decisions and motivations that my characters make and exhibit so they conflicts don’t develop, but i will not let the lack of a fully developed character set hold me back from meeting my goal.

lesson learned and applied: when one aspect of a project is causing the rest to stall, it is time to turn focus to some other part of the process and do they instead. can’t afford to lose momentum because life is to short to spend any of it stagnant.

the story continues.