Hello, one and all. First I'd like to thank everyone and all their well wishes while I fight my way through this family trouble. I am through the toughest part of the trouble but I am still hurting a lot. But I can now get back to the regular minutia of the day to day living.
I did find a wonderful side effect of dealing with the pain. Since I had not even looked at the story for the last couple of weeks or so, I re-read what I had previously written of the next chapter.
Holy crap that was some shitty writing! I had written things that would have propelled the story by weeks of a storyline. While that itself isn't a bad thing, I didn't explain how the hell we got there. Downright bad writing. So I renamed the file and put it away to hopefully reuse some of it in future chapter.
So long story short, I've restarted the chapter tonight. But luckily I was able to get pretty far since the time off allowed me to pump up the fire of my wantto. (That's what I call the push and want to actually write.)
I've said before I don't count the words in my chapters. I actually prefer to count the pages in OpenOffice I used to make them. Each of my chapters is generally 12-15 pages long. Some are a little longer but most are in that range. Once I finished the re-writing tonight I'm already onto 8 pages. It is easily the most work I have completed in a single night ever since I started writing this story.
I'm actually fighting myself to not keep writing. I want to keep going but the typos are stacking up from lack of sleep. So I am forcing myself to stop for the night. But I have left little reminders in the chapter to make sure I can get restarted quickly when I wake up in the morning.
Hopefully, I do wake up in the morning.
Make sure you tell the people in your life that you love, that you really do. You might not be able to follow up on your tiny reminders when you do wake up.