Angela Verdenius's Blog - Posts Tagged "gloomy"
Blue - you're killing me!
So Blue's story is killing me. I really thought his would be an easy write. Right? Wrong! When will I ever LEARN?!
*banging forehead on keyboard*
I had the prologue and first chapter done but was having so many problems. I didn't like the stories, the characters were wooden, no one was speaking to me (except Blue, who kept telling me to get a freakin' move on!). I was a mess, looking at the time that has passed with me wrestling him (and if you saw his cover, which I have stuck up on my desktop hutch, you'd know that's not a bad thing!), but wrestling the story and knowing it was...just...well let's be honest - crap!
So last night as I'm gloomily typing away and knowing it wasn't going anywhere, I leaned back and looked at it, and said "That's it. This is ending right now." and I put the whole bit into a special file (labelled 'Tries' but really meaning 'Failure'), and I started again - still with Blue, but a new heroine and a new story-line.
Can I just say that it is now going well? Yes, it has put me behind a lot in regards to my personal deadline, but I honestly cannot work on a book that has no heart. So this new story-line is working so much better, and I'm feeling the characters.
So right now, I'm going to stop here and do a couple of hours on Blue's book before I have to go to work. But at least the story is now flowing!
And if Blue decides to give me more problems later, I have the DELETE key! Just sayin', Blue, just sayin'...
*banging forehead on keyboard*
I had the prologue and first chapter done but was having so many problems. I didn't like the stories, the characters were wooden, no one was speaking to me (except Blue, who kept telling me to get a freakin' move on!). I was a mess, looking at the time that has passed with me wrestling him (and if you saw his cover, which I have stuck up on my desktop hutch, you'd know that's not a bad thing!), but wrestling the story and knowing it was...just...well let's be honest - crap!
So last night as I'm gloomily typing away and knowing it wasn't going anywhere, I leaned back and looked at it, and said "That's it. This is ending right now." and I put the whole bit into a special file (labelled 'Tries' but really meaning 'Failure'), and I started again - still with Blue, but a new heroine and a new story-line.
Can I just say that it is now going well? Yes, it has put me behind a lot in regards to my personal deadline, but I honestly cannot work on a book that has no heart. So this new story-line is working so much better, and I'm feeling the characters.
So right now, I'm going to stop here and do a couple of hours on Blue's book before I have to go to work. But at least the story is now flowing!
And if Blue decides to give me more problems later, I have the DELETE key! Just sayin', Blue, just sayin'...
