So soon!
I know it was only about a week ago that I posted, what ever will you -- my ever neglected little blog -- do with so much attention?
Today is edit-a-thon o6, to big to do that will decide our further movement with this, our novel, Prophecy's Birth. Oh the tension, oh the excitment, oh the lack of something for me to do at this very moment...
We've now edited everything that was edited and ready, which left us with thirty pages in need of attention. If we're smart I'll be able to pace myself enough that I can edit while Beth's editing and we'll somehow finish within five or ten minutes of one another. That's the hope, but the reality is that it'll probably be a much larger time discrepency.
You're probably all wondering why the fuck it's taking Beth and I so damned long to finish the damned editing on this thing. The answer is not that we're just crummy writers and have been completely re-writing this whole thing, that is far from the truth... most of the time. The reason is time, and now that we have time in this vacation '06, we have decided to pay some TLC to our baby, and get a move on. What we've also decided is that the book needs to be finished so that we can re-open its pages and ONCE A-FUCKING-GAIN, do some major re-writes.
Just typing that word, re-write, makes me shudder and feel a little nauseous. It's an unfortunate affect. I'm watching Bethany cut some stuff which is more entertaining, and eerie than I thought it would be... Back to where I was though, the re-writes *shudder* are going to require that we have the part of the book that we lie finished before we get started on them. I'm going to suggest that we each read the whole damned thing, and make a series of notes before we start on the new re-writes. I say we do this so that we can get a broad sense of what's happening, while we do that we can also get a better temperal sense of things. Beth and I are haveing some issues with time, which is putting a cramp in the way some of the characters move through the story. I figure if we each just read, and take careful notes with page numbers, than we can get a better sense of what's needed when we do those spiffy re-writes.
To refute myself: it might not be such a good idea. We might lose some perspective on the actual novel, or we might lose take too much time out of the book and lose our roll. Hm, the arguments to do the read are stronger. We should probably do the read then.
The only problem with this, of course, is that we'll be moving FARTHER away from publishing.I know, I know, there has to be a proposal first, there has to be a good story, start to finish, there has to be all this stuff, but it just feels like this date keeps getting shoved farther and farther away. I know I'm young and all, but that doesn't mean I have all the time in the world to wait, because I don't. There are other stories waiting for voice.
Now doesn't that just sound really cool? No one had better steal that. I would be so pissed off. Then again, I'm sure most people don't carry my theory of time with consideration given to Saint Augustine. I also have an interest in a story about about a dystopia I kind of created, but then again, I don't know if it's a dystopia, or just a really undesireable place that happens to be futuristic. I guess they can be mistaken.
Odd that both of those have roots with science fiction. We'll finish, and the series will be done, but I wish we had more time to devote to it. Staring at my next semester schedule is making me wince for the sake of the writing. It's going to take a big hit, but then, when's the writing not taking a hit? I'll say it again, like I'm constantly saying, time has got to be made. YA!
Well, I'll let Bethie respond, or not, depending on how she feels should her break come. For now though, good bye and wish us luck?
Today is edit-a-thon o6, to big to do that will decide our further movement with this, our novel, Prophecy's Birth. Oh the tension, oh the excitment, oh the lack of something for me to do at this very moment...
We've now edited everything that was edited and ready, which left us with thirty pages in need of attention. If we're smart I'll be able to pace myself enough that I can edit while Beth's editing and we'll somehow finish within five or ten minutes of one another. That's the hope, but the reality is that it'll probably be a much larger time discrepency.
You're probably all wondering why the fuck it's taking Beth and I so damned long to finish the damned editing on this thing. The answer is not that we're just crummy writers and have been completely re-writing this whole thing, that is far from the truth... most of the time. The reason is time, and now that we have time in this vacation '06, we have decided to pay some TLC to our baby, and get a move on. What we've also decided is that the book needs to be finished so that we can re-open its pages and ONCE A-FUCKING-GAIN, do some major re-writes.
Just typing that word, re-write, makes me shudder and feel a little nauseous. It's an unfortunate affect. I'm watching Bethany cut some stuff which is more entertaining, and eerie than I thought it would be... Back to where I was though, the re-writes *shudder* are going to require that we have the part of the book that we lie finished before we get started on them. I'm going to suggest that we each read the whole damned thing, and make a series of notes before we start on the new re-writes. I say we do this so that we can get a broad sense of what's happening, while we do that we can also get a better temperal sense of things. Beth and I are haveing some issues with time, which is putting a cramp in the way some of the characters move through the story. I figure if we each just read, and take careful notes with page numbers, than we can get a better sense of what's needed when we do those spiffy re-writes.
To refute myself: it might not be such a good idea. We might lose some perspective on the actual novel, or we might lose take too much time out of the book and lose our roll. Hm, the arguments to do the read are stronger. We should probably do the read then.
The only problem with this, of course, is that we'll be moving FARTHER away from publishing.I know, I know, there has to be a proposal first, there has to be a good story, start to finish, there has to be all this stuff, but it just feels like this date keeps getting shoved farther and farther away. I know I'm young and all, but that doesn't mean I have all the time in the world to wait, because I don't. There are other stories waiting for voice.
*name* is a woman suffering from obsessive compulsive order, after fighting
her Buhdist heritage for as long as she can remember, she finally gives in to
her father's suggestion that she meditate to find the cause of her problems.
What she finds on her journey is so spectaculare that it changes the very time
she's in, and that she percieves.
Now doesn't that just sound really cool? No one had better steal that. I would be so pissed off. Then again, I'm sure most people don't carry my theory of time with consideration given to Saint Augustine. I also have an interest in a story about about a dystopia I kind of created, but then again, I don't know if it's a dystopia, or just a really undesireable place that happens to be futuristic. I guess they can be mistaken.
Odd that both of those have roots with science fiction. We'll finish, and the series will be done, but I wish we had more time to devote to it. Staring at my next semester schedule is making me wince for the sake of the writing. It's going to take a big hit, but then, when's the writing not taking a hit? I'll say it again, like I'm constantly saying, time has got to be made. YA!
Well, I'll let Bethie respond, or not, depending on how she feels should her break come. For now though, good bye and wish us luck?
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