A New Week
Yeah, yeah, Monday sucks. However, since I've been doing freelance and working from home, I now see it as a brand new start to finish all the things that I left hanging on Friday. Also, since I am freelance, I tend to work weekends so the weeks blend together for me. Fortunately, I didn't work on Sunday as expected. Yippee!!! Though the next few weeks will probably be crazy for me ... but I'll think about that tomorrow.
Weekend was great and flew way too fast for me to get everything done that I wanted. My writing goal this week is to get through revisions for Chapter 6. It's an emotional scene and the story slows down a bit as my main character comes to terms with what happened to her and the hero admits his feelings for her. I'm trying to be realistic here. I get so angry when something happens to a heroine in a story then "Bam!" she's okay, she's accepted everything without a blink of her eye, and everything contiues on. No emotional journey to acceptance. No freak out fest before finally calming down and saying, "alright, I need to accept this." Sure, she can be strong about it and continue to press on in the story, but even the strongest would have to face the facts at some point and come to terms with it. That's what I'm struggling with right now. How to keep the reader in the story and have no reader think, "it wouldn't happen that way." Wish me luck!
Had lunch with Karmela Johnson, who is a very strong writer and has one book under her belt with another soon to follow (agent is sending out now, so it is only a matter of time!). Thanks to Karmela for sharing her experiences with me. We had met last year at the RWA conference in Reno. A few months ago, she had read over my first few chapters and ripped me a new one about what was wrong with my writing. After I lifted myself out of the ashes of what I had thought was a good 4th draft, I reviewed her comments and realized that I agreed with most of them. So I went back to the ole' drawing board and figured out how to make it work. Karmela told me that she'd written 8 drafts of her previous story before she got it right. Eight drafts from scratch, where she started over each time! Ack! So, good luck to Karmela with her latest and greatest. She definitely worked hard to get there.
Check out the Bookends, LLC post. It has a great blog about shameless self-promotions that authors do. Kind of obsessive ... some of them at least.
Weekend was great and flew way too fast for me to get everything done that I wanted. My writing goal this week is to get through revisions for Chapter 6. It's an emotional scene and the story slows down a bit as my main character comes to terms with what happened to her and the hero admits his feelings for her. I'm trying to be realistic here. I get so angry when something happens to a heroine in a story then "Bam!" she's okay, she's accepted everything without a blink of her eye, and everything contiues on. No emotional journey to acceptance. No freak out fest before finally calming down and saying, "alright, I need to accept this." Sure, she can be strong about it and continue to press on in the story, but even the strongest would have to face the facts at some point and come to terms with it. That's what I'm struggling with right now. How to keep the reader in the story and have no reader think, "it wouldn't happen that way." Wish me luck!
Had lunch with Karmela Johnson, who is a very strong writer and has one book under her belt with another soon to follow (agent is sending out now, so it is only a matter of time!). Thanks to Karmela for sharing her experiences with me. We had met last year at the RWA conference in Reno. A few months ago, she had read over my first few chapters and ripped me a new one about what was wrong with my writing. After I lifted myself out of the ashes of what I had thought was a good 4th draft, I reviewed her comments and realized that I agreed with most of them. So I went back to the ole' drawing board and figured out how to make it work. Karmela told me that she'd written 8 drafts of her previous story before she got it right. Eight drafts from scratch, where she started over each time! Ack! So, good luck to Karmela with her latest and greatest. She definitely worked hard to get there.
Check out the Bookends, LLC post. It has a great blog about shameless self-promotions that authors do. Kind of obsessive ... some of them at least.
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