What I've been doing lately


Greetings from the crazy obsessive butt-in-chair world of writing!

Lately I've written scenes on napkins, the back of bowling flyers and on the envelope of a fan letter while driving (I wasn't texting, okay, and have heard no law against writing while driving). Oops...just remembered, I need to answer that fan letter! It was so sweet, actually hand-written like snail-mail era.

Since last October I've been working on my Big Project. I did Nanowrimo and got 100 pages written in a blur of a writing trance. But by the mid- November, you know what happened? My brain over-loaded. I just couldn't go any more forward without going back and rewriting everything I'd written. This hopeful trilogy has world-building and while the concept of finishing a draft in a furious-flash sounds great, I couldn't go forward because I didn't know enough about the story yet. So I went back and for three months just rewrote, scribbled notes (anyway and everywhere!) until I felt I knew the story enough to continue on.

As of mid-May I have 280 pages, and it's not finished yet...but I can see the end in about six more scenes. And you know that note I scribbled on the back of the fan letter? It's the last few lines of this book. Here's a tiny peak at those words:
 It was never me she wanted. It was him. And now she's lost us both.
Sounds cool, huh? I get chills just thinking about reaching this scene, and the surprise (while except for those of you who read this and remember them a few years forward to after this book a) sells b) is edited c) final publication.

Because I KNOW this book will be published. Even if it falls under the overdone genre of "dystopian." 
That's just what it is, and I got the idea nearly 3 years ago, so I'm not following a trend.
 I'm following my passion.

(PS - I'm not saying the title because it's a really good title and I don't want to put it out in the universe and risk losing it -- that's happened to me several times in the past).

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Published on May 20, 2011 13:36
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