I'm not even attempting to talk about the stuff I'm reading or watching anymore. Although my media consumption continues unabated (in fact, might even have increased, now that I'm playing games again), my attention is mostly occupied with these revisions!
Last night I finally had this moment where I was like, "I really like the revised version of this book."
This is also probably the last time, before it gets published, that I'll be able to really pull the book (my second YA novel, We Are Totally Normal) apart and put it back together. I've done this now five or six times to this book, and each time it's gotten exponentially better, but at some point enough is enough. However this version I think is much closer to the right one. It's so much cleaner than the previous versions, and all the conflicts and relationships fit together way better. We'll see what my editor thinks though.
I've learned quite a bit in the two years I've been writing this book, and now I've a much better idea of the kinds of stories I want to write and the tools I have for writing those stories. Actually I'm feeling pretty creatively energized, and in addition to this book I've been working on a variety of other projects. Probably tomorrow my creative sphincter will be shut up tight and I'll be moaning about how I have no ideas for anything, but today I'm feeling good.