"41st! 41st!" "It's not like they put the numbers on the outside of the building!"
Have you ever had one of those days were you planned to get a lot of work done and the whole world was against you? That was my day yesterday. I was going to come home from work, read, edit, and post. Instead, my family decided to last minute go out of town and see Godzilla on the big screen. (The screen in town is tiny and pathetic for watching giant monsters tear up cities.) It was fun, I won't deny that it was fun, but now I have to resort to the hermit life again and hide in my bedroom all day to see if I can get caught up.
I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed with the Blade Books lately. I've never written anything like them before and when I look over the story and everything I hope to accomplish with it I feel like I have given myself an impossible task.
It isn't just so much making sure all of the different series fit together so the final book won't flop, it is the actual Blade series itself. There are certain things I am attempting with it that are kind of risky. I've been getting help with them - I sent a long email to someone the other day because they managed to pull off what I am hoping to do. It was brilliant when they did it. I keep believing mine is going to sound like some half thought out Science Fiction idea I threw in last minute because I wanted a plot change.
I'm not even sure what it is about this series that has me feeling lost and believing I am going to murder it brutally. Part of it is because I have been planning it for years. Even before I got the title or the actual idea, the desire to write a quest book has been bouncing around in my head since I was about 12 or 13.
I am hoping this is a good sign. These books aren't easy to write. There are days when I open the document and just stare at it because I don't know what is supposed to happen or why the characters did something and left me to try and catch up. I would have thought after all the plot changes the crew of the Haphazard books put me through I'd be more prepared for the Blade Boys. But they have their own level of insanity and plot changes. But if the books take more time, and surprise me this much, then maybe that means they will turn out really well. (I don't know how that works. But it seems to make sense if you've spent longer agonizing over a plot then it has a better chance of knocking people's boots off.)
Not to make it sound like I am not having fun with the series. (I was writing one scene the other day with Fagan and Trystan and discovered I really like them together. Something about almost killing the grumpy characters - fun things happen.)
I am nearing the end of book two. It is longer than I expected. I tend not to write long books because I don't want things to being to drag. But this time it just seems to work, and I am hoping by the end of it I will have the story I have always wanted.
I should stop now. I have editing to do and then I need to re-write a chapter which was lost when I was having computer problems.
Quote is from The Winter Soldier again. Between Sam Wilson and Nick Fury.
Allons-y!
I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed with the Blade Books lately. I've never written anything like them before and when I look over the story and everything I hope to accomplish with it I feel like I have given myself an impossible task.
It isn't just so much making sure all of the different series fit together so the final book won't flop, it is the actual Blade series itself. There are certain things I am attempting with it that are kind of risky. I've been getting help with them - I sent a long email to someone the other day because they managed to pull off what I am hoping to do. It was brilliant when they did it. I keep believing mine is going to sound like some half thought out Science Fiction idea I threw in last minute because I wanted a plot change.
I'm not even sure what it is about this series that has me feeling lost and believing I am going to murder it brutally. Part of it is because I have been planning it for years. Even before I got the title or the actual idea, the desire to write a quest book has been bouncing around in my head since I was about 12 or 13.
I am hoping this is a good sign. These books aren't easy to write. There are days when I open the document and just stare at it because I don't know what is supposed to happen or why the characters did something and left me to try and catch up. I would have thought after all the plot changes the crew of the Haphazard books put me through I'd be more prepared for the Blade Boys. But they have their own level of insanity and plot changes. But if the books take more time, and surprise me this much, then maybe that means they will turn out really well. (I don't know how that works. But it seems to make sense if you've spent longer agonizing over a plot then it has a better chance of knocking people's boots off.)
Not to make it sound like I am not having fun with the series. (I was writing one scene the other day with Fagan and Trystan and discovered I really like them together. Something about almost killing the grumpy characters - fun things happen.)
I am nearing the end of book two. It is longer than I expected. I tend not to write long books because I don't want things to being to drag. But this time it just seems to work, and I am hoping by the end of it I will have the story I have always wanted.
I should stop now. I have editing to do and then I need to re-write a chapter which was lost when I was having computer problems.
Quote is from The Winter Soldier again. Between Sam Wilson and Nick Fury.
Allons-y!
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