before I do anything else, because the minute I start making a daily list, the rest of it seems more compelling than writing, every last mundane item, feels more urgent than sitting here contemplating what I’m working on.

So let’s contemplate writing. What the hell am I working on, the Catbirds? Yes. It is a wide field of not knowing. Not knowing if I should give it up. Not knowing if I should write new material and if yes, what. Not knowing if I should just slap the new stuff I’ve written for it together, like glue it on there, and send it back out into the world.

Let’s try to wade through those so we can work. No, I shouldn’t give it up, not yet. Yes, I should probably keep writing new material, today’s tactic can be to free write whatever comes for a bit, then switch to trying to look at plot and the ending, then I could circle back and write something related to anything I come up with. Let’s go for at least twenty minutes but it could be more!!! In answer to the last thought, the gluing it all together, I think it is still a sound idea for me to get it into some kind of new shape and send it out again. That being the case, it would make sense to go through and have some sort of punch list for things yet to do, new scenes I would still like to write, etc., without getting all panicked about it and rushing through just to get it done, but with a sense of momentum.