"It's a long shot just to beat these odds/ The chance is we won't make it/ But I know if I don't take it/ There's no chance... So take the long shot"

I'm going a little crazy with the blog today. I think I like it.

All I know is I am going to have a heck of a time editing this book. Especially when it comes to a consistent verb agreement. Cause I feel like there has been a perceptible shift since I've started writing the first chapter of the second half. I wrote an entire chapter today. This is how it used to be before I was starting to feel creatively drained and taking a few days to write a chapter rather than one or two. But the problem is, I was really seeing the chapter in my head as I wrote it so a lot of it is in the present tense. BUT. The rest has been in the past tense. Or parts of it have been. I think. I'm starting to confuse myself. Luckily, I have smart family members who are going to help me edit it right? Right! :)

ETA: I think I fixed it! I wrote a "flashback scene" which helped me revert back to past tense. And then I changed my first sentence from "I have met my match" to "I had met my match" and everything fell into place. Weird. Guess I just needed to find my bearings. Amazing how changing one little thing can change everything!

But seriously, I think I found my "creative chair" at Starbucks. It's just a purple velvety armchair at the front (conveniently located next to a well hidden outlet) and I think the fact I am not hunched over in an uncomfortable wooden chair, I really pounded this chapter out. I actually think people were looking at me funny cause I was literally pounding my keyboard trying to get all of my words out as I thought of them. But I wrote for three hours straight. THREE! Usually I write and stop and think and write a little more and then stop and think some more and then go home after two hours. Or at least that's how it's been recently. But this chapter went really well, at least I think so. Minus the whole tense-issue. But I'll figure it out.

Do we like the posts about the book? Do I sound like I'm bragging? I'm really not. It's just that if somehow by some miracle this works out, I think it would be awesome to have a record of how it happened. I still think this is the longest of long shots but just maybe. Hey, it could happen (said in the voice of JP from "Angels in the Outfield")!