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Progress on my two main writing projects:
Dis/inhibition
I have four artists I ended up commissioning via etsy.com to illustrate the front cover of the book. Three of the four have finished, the other has promised an end-of-July completion. My most immediate goal, then, is to do the final edits on the text given to me by the editor I was working with last Spring. That'll be my job for July.
New Story:
I've noticed many writers on my flist tend to give stories titles before they've finished writing the first draft. This seems very strange to me. It's not until I've finished the first draft, or written the vast majority of it, that I know what a story's even about, and my titles are almost always based on the theme of the story, or the central plot point.
Anyway, I peeked in at chapter 2 of the the new story Tuesday morning. It was interesting, reading what I'd left of it. The "voice" of the writing was all wrong for the featured character in that chapter. So I was able to see it with fresh eyes after three weeks. I started rewriting it here and there to make it sound more like her voice and less like my formal, over-educated-vocabulary Narrator Voice. I also picked up on the undertone of animosity between the two characters in the chapter that was only hinted at before and really brought it out.
I think, sometimes, when we're busy writing a chapter and putting a lot of work into just getting words on the page, we sometimes become wedded to things that are bland or aren't working well because it took so much effort to get any words down at all. Come back three weeks later, and you've forgotten all that effort, and all you can see is the ugh, and you fix it.
Short story long, before I knew it, I was essentially done chapter 2. I finished the week by starting to arrange my thoughts for chapter 3.
Dis/inhibition
I have four artists I ended up commissioning via etsy.com to illustrate the front cover of the book. Three of the four have finished, the other has promised an end-of-July completion. My most immediate goal, then, is to do the final edits on the text given to me by the editor I was working with last Spring. That'll be my job for July.
New Story:
I've noticed many writers on my flist tend to give stories titles before they've finished writing the first draft. This seems very strange to me. It's not until I've finished the first draft, or written the vast majority of it, that I know what a story's even about, and my titles are almost always based on the theme of the story, or the central plot point.
Anyway, I peeked in at chapter 2 of the the new story Tuesday morning. It was interesting, reading what I'd left of it. The "voice" of the writing was all wrong for the featured character in that chapter. So I was able to see it with fresh eyes after three weeks. I started rewriting it here and there to make it sound more like her voice and less like my formal, over-educated-vocabulary Narrator Voice. I also picked up on the undertone of animosity between the two characters in the chapter that was only hinted at before and really brought it out.
I think, sometimes, when we're busy writing a chapter and putting a lot of work into just getting words on the page, we sometimes become wedded to things that are bland or aren't working well because it took so much effort to get any words down at all. Come back three weeks later, and you've forgotten all that effort, and all you can see is the ugh, and you fix it.
Short story long, before I knew it, I was essentially done chapter 2. I finished the week by starting to arrange my thoughts for chapter 3.
