Playing scales

In my mind's eye, I see a person at a piano. She has long, thin, accurate fingers and they move up and down the keyboard over and over in a rhythm. But she is playing nothing. "Just" scales. She's getting her fingers warm, her reach widened, her mind set where it needs to be. The time might sound wasted to someone who doesn't know what's involved, but it's some of the most important time she spends every day, just getting a feel, getting in tune.

I'm trying very hard to let my NaNo novel take its course. I've hit a bump in the road; I need a transition between where I am now and plot point one. My mind keeps working on it; I went to sleep thinking about it and thought I had it down, but in the morning's light the idea isn't quite what I want. I am being limited by my first person POV, but I can't change that. I have to find a way to get around it. And so here I am playing scales.

It's hard to do when you have a deadline. I know worry and frustration will only block my further. I'm trying to stay relaxed and positive because I need that energy to apply toward the solution. I guess I'm wondering if I should wait it out and see what comes when it comes, OR skip this part and get to what I do know and write it. Hey--write what you know takes on a whole new meaning there, doesn't it?

The idea of skipping and going ahead turns my linear side on it's ear. I inwardly balk at the idea. I don't want the gap there. Is that because I want to be perfect? Or is it because I need to buckle down and do the work, and not let the glitch get to me. Should I write just any old thing and come back to rework it then? Go with my less-than-ideal solution and let the story guide me to a more precise solution later?

I guess that's what drafts are all about right? I don't want to backtrack. I want to keep the forward motion.

I think I've answered my own question. I'm going to write what I have.

Coming here to play the scales did it's magic. :)