I think it's getting better

I didn't get very far on my outlined story, yesterday. For some reason I was too anxious about the story that I submitted for critique. I got a critique back, and, yup, all the flaws I saw were there and then some. I decided that the particular version of the story that I submitted needed to be rehashed. During my thirty minute free-writing this morning I thought up some ideas that may make the story stronger, but I seriously need to outline the thing, and I think it needs more complications. Or maybe a little more thought about what's going on. Maybe that's the case with the story that I outlined, too. I couldn't really get much beyond the first few opening lines.

On the other hand, I might be taking the story too seriously, because it's my first outline that actually worked. Was a story, so to speak. I describe well, I think I write well (mostly), and I do great dialog, but plots are my weak point. I can spin worlds, create awesome characters, but for someone who likes stories so much, I'm not that skilled at putting stories together. Plots, specifically. I've come up with lots of cool opening premises. Stuff that I would want to read myself. So for my next thirty minutes for thirty days project (I'm still going to do freewrites for thirty minutes a day, there's just too many benefits that come from that) I'm going to work on outlining stories and coming up with plots. If I happen to 'finish' a plot I'm going to work on another. And another. Hopefully by the time the thirty days are up, I'll be better at making plots. I don't know. Maybe I'll have to work at it for longer. I don't know if the plot goal should be for one a day or more. I'll see what happens. Even if I only do one a day, that would be thirty plots that I have to work with. Hopefully some of them worth writing on. Yeah.