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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Hurry Up and Wait

My agent has The Rake, she emailed to let me know it arrived along with the Shards of Crimson anthology contracts. But I still know nothing of the other proposals, as in are they still in house being reviewed or did they get sent out? Sigh. Information. All I seek is information. I hate being in the dark. I guess maybe no one liked any of them. But then someone should just tell me that, right? Whatever. This is driving me crazy. I have zero privacy at work, so a phone call involves going outside I suppose.

In the meantime, I've been working on Possession. It's going OK. I'm using my modified process which seems to be a good one, further modified after I read Jack Bickham's Scene and Structure.

In my chapter outline, which I write in tandem with my first draft chapters, I've been adding in some of his elements, such as tag lines that force me to identify the conflict and the disaster, or if it's a segue, a note that it's that. I've already modified my outline notion of what the chapter will be when I realized there was action with no disaster, Definitely a book worth a read.

I had to go to Amazon to get the correct information for the Bickham book and that reminded me that I have that plog thing going. So I posted there. I found some old posts that had comments. Oops. I'm terrible at stuff like that, writing interesting blog posts. Whatever.

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