I have a novel on my hands
May. 9th, 2008 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonIt's official. Venus In Transit is novelizing.
I've spent this week going back over the five chapters I'd completed (now four chapters). I realized that certain scenes needed to be rearranged, others needed to be written or expanded upon, but finally, finally I've got an opening that feels cohesive. It's not fighting itself anymore, and the book is pointed in the right direction now. More importantly, I've got that sense of it in the substrata of my consciousness.
It's still a first draft and still needs fixing, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. I can now ignore the opening and concentrate on finishing the rest of the book.
Despair will return. That seems to be an inevitable part of the novel writing process. For me and most people I know, at any rate. But right now I've got that totally groovy feeling: I'm in the groove and moving forward.
Until the whining starts again...
I've spent this week going back over the five chapters I'd completed (now four chapters). I realized that certain scenes needed to be rearranged, others needed to be written or expanded upon, but finally, finally I've got an opening that feels cohesive. It's not fighting itself anymore, and the book is pointed in the right direction now. More importantly, I've got that sense of it in the substrata of my consciousness.
It's still a first draft and still needs fixing, but I'm feeling pretty good about it. I can now ignore the opening and concentrate on finishing the rest of the book.
Despair will return. That seems to be an inevitable part of the novel writing process. For me and most people I know, at any rate. But right now I've got that totally groovy feeling: I'm in the groove and moving forward.
Until the whining starts again...
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