The ideons strike again
Oct. 15th, 2008 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonThe good news is I think I finally have reached that tipping point on the current WIP. The final action just got a kick start and I'm hopeful we'll be plunging towards the ending. Of course, I can never underestimate my ability to smash into a tree branch sticking out of the cliff face and getting hung up, or discover I really have a bungie cord attached to my ankles which will snap me back upstairs, but I'm really hoping I sprout wings and glide in to safety. We'll see.
The bad news is I was reading a novel last week that used the same central metaphor of the novel I'm about to start marketing. That's not so bad, as labyrinths are not uncommon literary devices. But what really burns my bacon is that she used that device in a similar conceptual way. Criminy, she even located it in the same type of geography! What's a girl to do? My book is quite different. I guess. I think. But it does get irritating when you think up something you think is fresh and then starting seeing it elsewhere.
Venus In Transit
The bad news is I was reading a novel last week that used the same central metaphor of the novel I'm about to start marketing. That's not so bad, as labyrinths are not uncommon literary devices. But what really burns my bacon is that she used that device in a similar conceptual way. Criminy, she even located it in the same type of geography! What's a girl to do? My book is quite different. I guess. I think. But it does get irritating when you think up something you think is fresh and then starting seeing it elsewhere.
Venus In Transit
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Date: 2008-10-16 09:45 pm (UTC)And woot for the progress on the WIP!
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Date: 2008-10-16 10:15 pm (UTC)