You’re at the half-way point of the thirty-day structure. There was a proposition at the outset that you could leave yourself something that felt finished each day, even knowing it might be modified by the next day’s writing. And that you could write by moving forward in fragments. If you’ve found yourself writing more of a scatter than a carefully worked set of fragments, remind yourself that the invitation is there to work smaller and aim for a daily satisfaction. It’s also useful to pause and try to understand what’s holding the center of the scatter, so that you can stop thinking of it as a scatter and start seeing it as something in the process of cohering.
In honor of the halfway, write a small, necessary piece of language that acts as a keystone for everything that you’ve written and everything that’s coming. Of course it may not ultimately prove to be the keystone for what’s coming, since you don’t know what that is or what the collisions, if you choose to take them up, may do. But imagine that what you write today contains a seed of balance for all the forces at play in what you are making.
Perhaps, to do this, zoom very far out from the scale of story you have been writing.
Alternately, zoom very far in, to the cellular or atomic scale.