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Dying in the heat!
Funny how things work out, isn't it?
I had a long to-do list this weekend but 90% of it involved using the PC and it was way, way too hot for me to do that. The PC is in my bedroom which is also the boiler room: yummy and warm in winter, absolute hell when we hit a heatwave like this weekend.
(Which is why I'm behind on answering email and comments - my apologies.)
So I squeezed into the only shady spot in the garden, and spent most of the weekend trying to keep my cold drinks away from the dogs and reading or writing.
Weirdly, I ended up with eight pages (that's handwritten pages - can't give a wordcount) of a sequel to Never Say Die. I hadn't seriously planned to write a sequel; there's an implied sequel in there, with the next generation of psi!kids and a couple of other plot details I left hanging, but although the road was left open I didn't expect to write it. What I wrote this weekend is in such a different direction from my original thoughts, it's quite exciting.
To start with, I have a prologue written in the first person (I never write in the first person!) from a demon's POV. I'm not even certain which demon it is: could be Ruby, but it could as easily be Meg or some original character. Meg could be fun...but I'm just gonna go with it and see who this turns out to be.
Then I got an opening plot which...I dunno. It feels like I couldn't have thought of it myself, you know? It's not the kind of idea I would have. But it's a really interesting wrinkle and opens up all kinds of possibilities for things to happen later.
At this point I don't know if it's a story worth continuing. I need to know the ending before I can decide, and while I have one idea (one evil idea bwa-ha-ha), I don't yet know that that's the end. Nor even if it would really work.
Also re-read Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy. Yep, the first book makes a lot more sense on a second reading, now I have a better idea who the characters are. It's good that she doesn't "spoonfeed" the reader but there were things I found confusing on a first read. I'm totally in love with her writing. *makes note to buy more of her books when I'm paid this month*
Now praying (preying?) for the weather to cool down so I can do the work I promised on Sue's website!
I had a long to-do list this weekend but 90% of it involved using the PC and it was way, way too hot for me to do that. The PC is in my bedroom which is also the boiler room: yummy and warm in winter, absolute hell when we hit a heatwave like this weekend.
(Which is why I'm behind on answering email and comments - my apologies.)
So I squeezed into the only shady spot in the garden, and spent most of the weekend trying to keep my cold drinks away from the dogs and reading or writing.
Weirdly, I ended up with eight pages (that's handwritten pages - can't give a wordcount) of a sequel to Never Say Die. I hadn't seriously planned to write a sequel; there's an implied sequel in there, with the next generation of psi!kids and a couple of other plot details I left hanging, but although the road was left open I didn't expect to write it. What I wrote this weekend is in such a different direction from my original thoughts, it's quite exciting.
To start with, I have a prologue written in the first person (I never write in the first person!) from a demon's POV. I'm not even certain which demon it is: could be Ruby, but it could as easily be Meg or some original character. Meg could be fun...but I'm just gonna go with it and see who this turns out to be.
Then I got an opening plot which...I dunno. It feels like I couldn't have thought of it myself, you know? It's not the kind of idea I would have. But it's a really interesting wrinkle and opens up all kinds of possibilities for things to happen later.
At this point I don't know if it's a story worth continuing. I need to know the ending before I can decide, and while I have one idea (one evil idea bwa-ha-ha), I don't yet know that that's the end. Nor even if it would really work.
Also re-read Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy. Yep, the first book makes a lot more sense on a second reading, now I have a better idea who the characters are. It's good that she doesn't "spoonfeed" the reader but there were things I found confusing on a first read. I'm totally in love with her writing. *makes note to buy more of her books when I'm paid this month*
Now praying (preying?) for the weather to cool down so I can do the work I promised on Sue's website!
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You write by hand? Do you normally compose on a keyboard?
I write my first drafts mostly by hand (actually I use whatever's to hand, but that's usually pen and notebook because I carry them everywhere.)
A first draft for me is a real mess: I just write with no regard for stuff like shifting POV or grammar, I use little diagrams for some bits, I write parts as a script with no scene setting...it's a mess. An no one but me ever gets to see that.
Back when I started writing I used to transcribe that first draft by hand (turning it into readable prose) before I typed it up - the typed version would be the third draft because I'd revise-and-polish as I typed. Now I transcribe from my messy notes directly onto the computer and revise a gazillion times, but in bits-and-pieces, until I'm happy with the result.