I went through the first 6 (now 7) chapters of Magellan's Witch and made my edits and worked on switching things around with my heroine. This morning at the gym I wrote a big note at the top of some chapter or other that I needed to flip hero and heroine. No, I don't mean physically. In that chapter, my hero was convincing my heroine that he was not a regular human. And that wasn't working for me. It was boring and stupid. One of my strategies for dealing with this is to do the opposite. If they're fighting, have them make love. If they're disagreeing have them agree. If they're making love, put them in a car chase instead. Like that. So, I flipped the roles and had the heroine convincing the hero he wasn't a regular human.
Labels: editing, Magellan's Witch
posted by Carolyn @ 5/09/2007 09:58:00 PM Permalink
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