In which I gather my rosebuds while I may
Apr. 11th, 2008 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonSo I've been doing some new writing the last few days, for the first time in months, and it's felt really good. I decided to take some time off after finishing the first draft of my last novel, and that stretched into a much longer period than I anticipated. Then I busied myself with the rewrite, and in the weeks since finishing that I rewrote some older stories (again) and sent them back out.
I told myself it was time to start the new novel, but instead I've been working on a Dos Lunas Country novelette about Ramona the chicken wrangler. I abandoned this one some time back because I realized I didn't know, after all, how it ended. I thought I did, but I'm just the author. I'm not always in charge. Now that I do know how it ends, it called to me to finish up.
This story is crucial to understanding the story arc for my character, JK Montmorency. Even though he isn't the hero of the new novel, understanding his back story is important to it—to the whole Dos Lunas cycle, actually.
There's another story about JK and some moon maidens that I should probably finish, too. Also critical to his back story, but somehow I haven't been able to get it done. It needed some deep currents to resolve themselves inside me first, but I suspect they have now. At any rate, it's talking to me again. We'll see how things go with Ramona. Maybe then the moon maidens can have their turn at last.
Tempus fugit, ya'll. Do what you can when you can because you never know what's around the corner.
I told myself it was time to start the new novel, but instead I've been working on a Dos Lunas Country novelette about Ramona the chicken wrangler. I abandoned this one some time back because I realized I didn't know, after all, how it ended. I thought I did, but I'm just the author. I'm not always in charge. Now that I do know how it ends, it called to me to finish up.
This story is crucial to understanding the story arc for my character, JK Montmorency. Even though he isn't the hero of the new novel, understanding his back story is important to it—to the whole Dos Lunas cycle, actually.
There's another story about JK and some moon maidens that I should probably finish, too. Also critical to his back story, but somehow I haven't been able to get it done. It needed some deep currents to resolve themselves inside me first, but I suspect they have now. At any rate, it's talking to me again. We'll see how things go with Ramona. Maybe then the moon maidens can have their turn at last.
Tempus fugit, ya'll. Do what you can when you can because you never know what's around the corner.