Leaving Tracks

It's snowing...again...ICK! I knew we were supposed to get another 1-2 inches overnight, but it decided that overnight would be right when I would normally shovel the drive before going to the coffeeshop and then to the shop. No, the snow today started about 2:30 am and it is still coming down (a second front is coming through now) and I can shovel, but I won't really accomplish much by doing so. So I'm torn - if I shovel before I leave, my tire tracks will be minimized - an important consideration. If I hold off because it is still snowing, I'll have serious tire tracks and my poor DH will be stuck with a lot of shoveling today since I try to do the house when I can to save him some effort. But...it is his day off... I'm very tempted to be bad!

My tracks would be much less visually interesting...

I haven't written in my o-fic story for several days now and it'[s bothering me. Normally if I'm writing on a story my fingers itch and I can't wait to get back to it. I get bogged down here and there, but usually I see light when I look up and I struggle, climbing the rough walls of my mental prison, to break free into the sunshine of clarity of plot and character device. That isn't happening this time.

Writing can sometimes be serious labor.

I'm making an assumption that clarity of action isn't coming to me because the story has to be a retelling of something already well known. When a tale is well known and established and an author is attempting to change it in one significant way, sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. I'm almost at a point of deciding that this one may not work and I would be better off choosing a different tale. If so, then I would have wasted some serious working time and have a deadline suddenly breathing down my neck.

The best of characters can be dusted off to sing again.

So today will be a decision day for me. One way or another I will move forward with this task during my writing time tomorrow. If I decide to continue, I'll see what I can do to outline where the plot will go today so that I will know if I am comfortable with it or not. If I decide I have to change stories, I'll need to examine which story to switch to and I'll shelve my current one and it's main character to be dusted off another time for another tale. Characters can jump stories if they are strong voices and I think he could have legs in a different universe. Time to think...