The Hard Part

I've been so wrapped up with school, I've hardly had time to write, which is bothersome to say the least. So last night, after a fraternity event, I sat down at my friend's place since My Joy is with her Godparents for an extended visit, and wrote. Or tried to. Not edit, but write. And not to start anything new, for which you have (well, I do) the built in excitement of starting something completely new. No, I pulled out something I've been working on and started to pick threw it again. I erased and changed a few things, and admittedly there is a bolded line that says "insert description here" because my internet was down - again - and I didn't have the necessary details. I did however manage to write 1,036 words - completely new from where I stopped the last time. Doesn't include the edits in previous paragraphs or pages. And the hardest part of the whole thing, the first 500 words. It was almost easier to take the GRE than to write those few pages. Ugh. But I did get them done, and I will try to hit at least 500 words tonight, so that the first few pages aren't that hard again. Not that I'm not going to go back through and cut about half of it, but this run is to write it ugly, not pretty it up. That's what revisions are for.