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Monday, December 22, 2003

43+ Got a good deal of the fixes in for the story. I like it. A lot.

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Sunday, December 21, 2003

My last paper for school this semester is done. For good or ill, it's emailed to my prof. I am free, free I tell you! Free to write fiction. Only, come to think of it, now I have to start polishing the paper I'm presenting in February. That should be fun, though. However, I will be able to wallow in fiction tomorrow with nary a thought of guilt or any pressure but writer's angst. I think I mentioned that GML is a baadd boy. That's good. And now he has a brother who's good with a twist. I have to rewrite the whole front end, but that's good. And that's what I'm going to do right now. In a minute, because I just remembered that yesterday when I was engaging in avoidance behavior over my "pyrate" paper, I transferred my copy of The Spare into ARC format so I could send it off to a book store that expressed an interest in it, and so, of course, I read the whole thing. It's not horrible, at all, but I wonder if it's really romanc-y enough. Better written than Lord Ruin, I think, because I solved my POV issue in The Spare. Anyway, back to work.

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Monday, December 15, 2003

42+. Up way too late. Will regret this in the am. GML is turning out to be a bit of a wicked man. Golly. He's going to need to be redeemed! Fun stuff. Oh, and the answer from Dorchester was that "Gosh, we'll fix that!" Haven't checked to see if they have.

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Monday, December 08, 2003

Just an addendum to that last post. I sent off an email to Dorchester so, hopefully their answer is, "Gosh, you're right, we'll fix that!" and not, "That is Chapter 1." Also, I've been reading my Jan issue of RT and I really wish I hadn't because now I realize that The Spare should be reviewed next month, and all I could do is panic. Erk.

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40+. Seems to be going well. The usuual moments of despair. Was bopping about the web and saw that Dorchester has posted an excerpt of The Spare (Good, guess that means they really are going to publish it....) But the excerpt says "Chapter 1" and it's actually Chapter 2. Naturally, this makes me panic. Calming breath. The reasonable thing to do is send a polite email asking to have the Chapter 1 changed to Chapter 2. Right? They couldn't possibly have cut an entire chapter without telling me, could they? Argh!!!

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Sunday, December 07, 2003

39K. Have been swamped with school and life, plus I have another cold, but in between all this, I had some major ideas about the story and I have started those chapters. Plus, I am toying with this idea for a new approach which is just write the chapters I'm excited about and worry later about making everything fit and flow. Normally, I would agonize over how to adjust the rest of the story with the new chapters, but now, I'm just writing them and figuring that my subconcious is hard at work, plus there will eventually be some big signs pointing me in the right direction. Anyway, got a lot done today, just since 9pm.

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Monday, December 01, 2003

Thanksgiving week provided some welcome downtime. I'd been feeling kind of discouraged about The List, kind of wallowing, but now, well, I am seeing my way through. I am reordering things, will be doing a paper read through just to see what comes of it (hopefully more than despair!) Anyway, the hero's brother is turning out to be a bad guy and so is one of the main secondary characters, which offers some tantalizing turns for the story. It's just that I feel the answer is lurking somewhere but I have too many assumptions about my story to follow where the characters/story are leading. On the plus side, however, PE and GML are still hot together. It's Monday, my writing day, not being terribly efficient, plus I don't want to go back to the day job tomorrow.

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