Lost Already
I didn’t make the first cut in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Either they aren’t looking for vampire novels, or I need to work on my pitch. Maybe both.
Meanwhile, I’m still revising the thing, so it’s just as well I lost early. I had cut it in half, but now I’m adding about half of the removed material back in. The first half almost makes a story on its own, but I liked the original ending better.
While in the shower, the solution came to me. A little rearranging of some scenes, one new one, leave a few for book two, and Bob’s yer uncle. Get that done and I get to revise it all over again.
It still needs more depth to each scene, and more depth to the characters, but I have to do that revision scene by scene. And I have to be sure I have the right scenes before I tackle the job.
Book two now consists of a random collection of leftover scenes and a really rough draft written during Nanowrimo. I think I’ll try the index card method of plotting when the time comes to work on that one.
Meanwhile, I’m still revising the thing, so it’s just as well I lost early. I had cut it in half, but now I’m adding about half of the removed material back in. The first half almost makes a story on its own, but I liked the original ending better.
While in the shower, the solution came to me. A little rearranging of some scenes, one new one, leave a few for book two, and Bob’s yer uncle. Get that done and I get to revise it all over again.
It still needs more depth to each scene, and more depth to the characters, but I have to do that revision scene by scene. And I have to be sure I have the right scenes before I tackle the job.
Book two now consists of a random collection of leftover scenes and a really rough draft written during Nanowrimo. I think I’ll try the index card method of plotting when the time comes to work on that one.
posted by Abby at 3:55 PM
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