Posted by admin on Jul 21, 2010 in
writing Ok, it’s been a while since I blogged here – because it’s been a while since I wrote. My writer’s group went well, but for now we are only meeting once a month. Kids are losing their minds couped up, and between my Selah time and my business planning, for now, the writing is on hold.
I DON’T WANT IT TO BE. The fact is, I’m not sure I could get more than a few words on the page any day, I’m so stressed and burnt out come night (my writing time). I don’t have a good solution for this. I keep getting the “if you don’t have it, you don’t really want it” signal from the people I’m reading but that’s not exactly true. Burn out is hard, when what you need is fallow ground to plant anew. I haven’t recovered my novel yet and I’m afraid to, as it might be … problematic. What if I get and I can’t pick it up?
I’m wondering now if I should just first reader it…but no, wait, I have to continue on changing the tense. DARN IT.
No idea still where to find a first reader anyway.
Ok, things to get done by end of July: retrieve novel, by end of August: complete tense/edit revision, by end of September: find 1-3 first readers.
Wish me luck…
Tags: work in progress
Posted by admin on Jun 21, 2010 in
finding inspiration Ok, well, as you know, I lost 100 pages of edits to “Commoner Days”, my fantasy YA WIP, and Chris located the file on the laptop. Now we just need the budget to restore it. This is great news, because I’m simply having a terrible time getting off the ground with anything new, and this sense of “unfinished but maybe marketable and definitely good” is killing me.
SO I decided to return to my Holly Lisle course and go from there. Good. So I’m looking for an assignment and found a bunch of notebooks I hadn’t utilized. Also good, because I just committed to start journaling.
Well, in one of these notebooks, I had done a series of 1-3 page vignettes. Some of them were related to WIP ideas, and some were stand alone. I got to 2 of these stories, which were based off of a later sequel to “Commoner Days”.
My God, it was good. Firstly, there was a romance that the princess began that was forbidden to her that makes a great opening. (Let’s just say it involves her highness’s boobs.) Secondly, there was a part from later in life where she is raising a child with a genetic condition, let’s just say it resembles autism. I had *completely* forgotten that I had put that into this character! In fact, Nareezia (sound it out) is amazing, and I adore her. She’s a lot NOT like me, but all my protagonists are me in some sense, she’s just the furthest distance from me.
The caveat is that you’re not supposed to write your sequel after you write the original, just in case. However, in this case the sequel is a generation later, and while my CD protagonist Jonni shows up, it’s her grown granddaughter’s very different story, start to finish.
Hm, not sure what to do with this. I’ve given up on the romance right now, the time travel plot is boring the snot out of me and no, I can’t figure out how to combine them as mentioned the other day. And, I’m no further along in my paranormal story.
I said I was going to start journaling, but maybe fleshing out some writing of anything is the way to do.
On the upside, I did find a bunch of notebooks that are empty, so I can start exercises and “journaling” there.
Tags: work in progress
