Was feeling hopless again, but now I can see some parts really coming together. I'm still feeling around for some of the character development, but I have glimmers on just about everyone and some exciting notions on the main characters. So, things are not entirely bad. There are times when I wish I could just wake up and have a full draft already done. Rats. Gotta do it myself. And, I can't do it fast because then the work is really not good. Still thinking about frankness in the diary.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/20/2001 10:14:00 PM Permalink
More rewrites. Deleted Chapter 1, stuck chapters 6 and 7 at the beginning, stripped out a long conversation in former Chap 6 which will now take place between SA and another character instead of SA/OW. This will work well, I think. Am adjusting SA so that he is actually being presented with wife candidates and OW tells him she's engaged in the first chapter. Also, as an aside, I am debating just how frank to be in this blog. I've been dancing around a few issues but I'm beginning to think, why? Except, of course, it might hurt some feelings in the event someone besides me looks at this.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/13/2001 09:11:00 AM Permalink
Well, didn't realize it's been so many days. Am adding some chapters toward the beginning. Have been doing some critiquing for a writer's group. I've discovered I shouldn't do any work after I've done critiques. The mind set and frustration bleeds through. I tried to go over some of my own chapters and suddenly felt very depressed. The words seemed uninspired, the story horrible. But, I know it's not. Anyway, I have about 30K words in the whole and hope to add about 5K more before the weekend, as I have some days off.
posted by Carolyn @ 6/07/2001 11:41:00 AM Permalink
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