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boring writing update
Oct. 14th, 2010 11:25 pmI have given up and declared the Flesh-Eating Bacteria story a novel. Sigh. When I figured I was about half-way through the story and was already over 38,000 words, it was getting too hard to stay in denial.
After a brief break from it to write another story (Surf, which needs some fixin' itself) I'm back to working on the FEBN, starting back at the beginning so I could both fix some of the problems I'd identified while letting it sit and roll around in my brain, and also so I could make some necessary adjustments to make it actually work as a novel-length piece. I've now worked my way through about 18.5k of it, and am pretty happy with the way it's now unfolding.
I'd like to get Surf out into the world before the end of the year, so probably I'll be stepping away from the FEBN again sometime not too long from now. (Need some more feedback on it in its current state, and need some backbrain time to process my own concerns about it first.) I'm sort of thinking I'd like to have my revision of the FEBN at a point where I can spend NaNoCheaMo cranking out the second half of the full draft, but honestly I don't know how that'll actually fall out w/ my life as insanely overwhelming as it is. Certainly, if I can have a submission-ready version of Surf and a complete first draft of the FEBN by the end of December, I'll feel pretty good about my progress with writing this year.
On the agenda for 2011: find a new in-person writer's group. It's just too hard trying to herd writers online, and I desperately need the back-and-forth dialogue part of critique. Also, it wouldn't hurt to feel a part of the wider writing world again.
After a brief break from it to write another story (Surf, which needs some fixin' itself) I'm back to working on the FEBN, starting back at the beginning so I could both fix some of the problems I'd identified while letting it sit and roll around in my brain, and also so I could make some necessary adjustments to make it actually work as a novel-length piece. I've now worked my way through about 18.5k of it, and am pretty happy with the way it's now unfolding.
I'd like to get Surf out into the world before the end of the year, so probably I'll be stepping away from the FEBN again sometime not too long from now. (Need some more feedback on it in its current state, and need some backbrain time to process my own concerns about it first.) I'm sort of thinking I'd like to have my revision of the FEBN at a point where I can spend NaNoCheaMo cranking out the second half of the full draft, but honestly I don't know how that'll actually fall out w/ my life as insanely overwhelming as it is. Certainly, if I can have a submission-ready version of Surf and a complete first draft of the FEBN by the end of December, I'll feel pretty good about my progress with writing this year.
On the agenda for 2011: find a new in-person writer's group. It's just too hard trying to herd writers online, and I desperately need the back-and-forth dialogue part of critique. Also, it wouldn't hurt to feel a part of the wider writing world again.
