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I hateses this book! Hateses!
Sep. 10th, 2006 07:40 pmOK, so I'm slowly edging out of the "hate the entire book" phase, because of course I am persisting and chanting "It's only a rough draft, it's only a rough draft!" but it still seems to be taking forever. However, I'm keeping to schedule. I'm trying for the same schedule I had over the summer, even though I have actual work (teaching) to do now: one chapter a week. This required me to write on the weekend this week, which I expect to happen in the future. But after a marathon day of writing (12 pages!) today, I managed to finish it. It's longer than I expected, which makes me wonder about whether this book is actually going to be 100,000 words or not. I have a feeling the first draft will be . . . over. By alot. But then I can focus on cutting it down.
And I think I'll need to do that. Unlike book 2, which seemed to magically pop out of my head more or less in one solid piece, with very little rewriting necessary, this one will take some heavy work after it's finished. The problem is that the motivations and action in book 2 were extremely clear and obvious and linear. That's not true here. In fact, I'm still figuring out motivations, which is the problem. There are things I already know I have to change in the beginning, and I know that I haven't smoothed out a bunch of the plot ideas, and I can feel that the current stuff (including this chapter) will also require smoothing out. I'm finding all these things that require "clues" or at least lead-ins earlier in the novel, so I'll have to carefully place all of those. I just haven't figured out all the complexity behind the emotions involved in this one.
But in good news *grin* I feel that I've turned into the steep rollercoaster climb to the top. In fact, I feel that I'm nearing the top and I'll be doing the screaming, hurdling down the other side thing soon. That would be good. I need the high.
In other news, have you entered the contest yet? Why not?
Also, I've been told by my agent that there will be a review of Cracked Throne in Publisher's Weekly tomorrow. I'm hoping for a good review. No need for stars or anything, just some good words. As soon as I know what they said, I'll post it here. Unless it's really bad.
Anyway, here's the wordage:
Vacant Throne
PS--Ok, the houses in my new city use long-legged birds for symbols, such as the heron, the crane, the egret, etc. Anyone know of any others? Is the cormorant such a bird? I need 8 houses total and so far that's all I've come up with. The online thesaurus isn't helpful.
And I think I'll need to do that. Unlike book 2, which seemed to magically pop out of my head more or less in one solid piece, with very little rewriting necessary, this one will take some heavy work after it's finished. The problem is that the motivations and action in book 2 were extremely clear and obvious and linear. That's not true here. In fact, I'm still figuring out motivations, which is the problem. There are things I already know I have to change in the beginning, and I know that I haven't smoothed out a bunch of the plot ideas, and I can feel that the current stuff (including this chapter) will also require smoothing out. I'm finding all these things that require "clues" or at least lead-ins earlier in the novel, so I'll have to carefully place all of those. I just haven't figured out all the complexity behind the emotions involved in this one.
But in good news *grin* I feel that I've turned into the steep rollercoaster climb to the top. In fact, I feel that I'm nearing the top and I'll be doing the screaming, hurdling down the other side thing soon. That would be good. I need the high.
In other news, have you entered the contest yet? Why not?
Also, I've been told by my agent that there will be a review of Cracked Throne in Publisher's Weekly tomorrow. I'm hoping for a good review. No need for stars or anything, just some good words. As soon as I know what they said, I'll post it here. Unless it's really bad.
Anyway, here's the wordage:
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74,475 / 100,000 (74.5%) |
Vacant Throne
PS--Ok, the houses in my new city use long-legged birds for symbols, such as the heron, the crane, the egret, etc. Anyone know of any others? Is the cormorant such a bird? I need 8 houses total and so far that's all I've come up with. The online thesaurus isn't helpful.
