Am doing a paper read-through. Going well. Making some great changes. Major light bulb moment requiring significant reworking of some elements but does keep to the arc of the story better than the way it was fizzling out before.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/28/2004 05:29:00 PM Permalink
50K officially. That puts me about halfway done, a little closer. Today I got a lot of transition stuff done and transitioned with but a sentence or two. Now that's good.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/19/2004 11:27:00 PM Permalink
P.S. for the last post. Regarding the lack of transition - this is to be expected since I have sworn to never ever write another transition scene. I get to write transition sentences. That's all. I am only writing the stuff that works, leaving out all the boring parts. Just like Elmore Leonard. Also, since I'm on a roll, I should say I am feeling a bit discouraged about this writing business. I have such a pathetically small mailing list. I haven't even hit triple digits yet. I am thinking that wriiting is a lot like the rest of America, 1 percent of the writers make all the money and the rest are consigned to midlist hell. Plus, sometimes I really think I'm at least as good as, if not better them some of the Best Sellers and if I think that, then in reality, I must really be incompetent, because otherwise I would worry about being incompetent. [Rant about reading other people's drafts deleted]
posted by Carolyn @ 1/18/2004 11:22:00 PM Permalink
49K+ Am working hard to bring the chapters into cohesion. Right now, they don't transition well. But I've been working and working and reording things and eliminating characters or changing them around. For example. PE's stepmother is now her mother, and her father is now her stepfather. I think that works better. I will say I'm working at making GML have some fairly serious character flaws, like sleeping with PE's mother, for gosh sakes. But when he's redeemed, he will be really redeemed, by golly. Also, urp, I have been reading a lot of Romance lately, plus lurking on some lists. Reading observation number 1) Many of the stories completely fall apart during sex. There doesn't feel like there's anything at stake. It's just feel-good. Ho-hum. Lurking Observation Number 1) Readers have said they often skip the sex. So, this means there will be some fall out in the genre unless writers start addressing this issue. The genre is NOT about sex. Those scenes should not be there just to titillate. They should be meaningful to the participants. A lot of emotion is at stake, and I'm surprised at the number of Best Selling authors who seem not to have put anything at stake but the climax. Hmm.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/18/2004 11:14:00 PM Permalink
I have been playing around with the web site. Fixed some stuff. Improved some stuff. I feel another redesign coming on. But not drastic. As for writing, I have been working with paper copy. Getting antsy. But things are going OK.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/17/2004 10:05:00 PM Permalink
sigh The List is about to get renamed I think, because I have a better title. Plus, a bunch of it isn't very good or else isn't connected very well, or at all, with the parts that are good. And, I suppose I should admit that parts of it are, in fact, very good. But I have gobs to cut or else rewrite. Trying to simplify....
posted by Carolyn @ 1/05/2004 04:52:00 PM Permalink
Arghh! A review of The Spare has been posted. But it's OK. It's just nerve-wracking, that's all.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/04/2004 12:16:00 PM Permalink
47+. The story is taking shape. This time around, I am going more with instinct. But I wonder if perhaps I need to write a lot of junk before there is sufficient development of the h/h to drive the story in its particular direction. Interesting. I have Mary Balogh's Slightly Tempted to read, and she always makes me feel inadequate as a writer. But I love her books....
posted by Carolyn @ 1/03/2004 10:34:00 PM Permalink
But, on the other hand, I like the cover.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/01/2004 05:43:00 PM Permalink
Am at 46K. The story is going very well. GML is a very bad boy, but a hottie. PE is his match. Anyway, have been, naturally, moving stuff around, etc. Plus, I just finished looking at some links from the RWA eNewsletter and I think I will stop reading about the buiness. It just makes my heart sink to my toes and wonder how it is I ever got published, and since I am, depressed about probably never making it past mid-list. sigh. How depressing. Plus, it just makes me feel like all those other writers are the real ones and I'm the fake one.
posted by Carolyn @ 1/01/2004 05:41:00 PM Permalink
Liz Maverick
Jennifer Ashley
Sandy Schawb
Patti O'Shea
Marjorie M. Liu
Megan Frampton
Kristin Nelson
Miss Snark
Dystel & Goderich
The Rejecter
Evil Editor