Caught up

[rowyn]

On Livejournal, anyway. Just in time for me to go away and fall hopelessly behind again. I'm not sure if I mentioned this already or not, but I'm going to visit brennabat and kendra for several days. I'm leaving Thursday, and I'll be getting back on Wednesday night.

I'm still behind on Prophecy. I did some extra writing last night, on the latest hateable scene. (One of the benchmarks of how much I'm enjoying my writing: whether or not I'm sending snippets to Greywolf. I haven't sent him anything in weeks. I must be hating it.) The scene is dreadful, but at least it's almost over and I'll be able to move on to the next one.

Which, um, I don't have much hope will be better. But, hey, there aren't many of these left to go. It'll all be over soon. Except for the revising, of course, which will continue on for months afterwards. Possibly years, if I decide I still like this monstrosity enough to try publishing it. But there's no sense borrowing trouble now: the rough draft will be done in June, and that's enough of a goal to shoot for.

I ought to be doing some more work on it now, but what I really want to do is draw. Not, apparently, badly enough to get out of my seat and go to my sketchbook. But I don't feel much like writing or playing a game right now, so drawing would make the most sense.

I think I'll try and get a wee bit of writing done, though. It'd be nice to be a little more caught-up on Prophecy.

Just in time to go away and fall behind again.

Comments

[lady-anne.livejournal.com]

Have a SUPER time - if you see anyone I know, be sure to say 'Hi' for me.

Are you driving, flying, or ???

Be good - The Lady, Anne

[rowyn]

Flying out. They live far enough away that by the time I reached there by driving, I'd have to turn around and drive back. :)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Best wishes on the trip! And I really hope you can get out of the slump somehow. Who knows? Maybe a trip would help. What sort of trouble is it on the sections? Is it that you're getting to the really dreadful, tragic parts and it's just no fun putting yourself in the place of the characters? Or is it just a general weariness with, you know, slogging through a very large project? Or something else?

[rowyn]

Well, to speak in fairly generic terms:

The book is full of little incidents that have to happen in order for the next part to happen. X has to fall in love with Y, B has to go to Newplace to learn Z, C and D have to get E to help them against F, etc.

My job is to make all of these events both plausible and interesting. Some events may not seem superficially plausible. For example, the story of Joan of Arc is true, yet if I put into a book "And then the king put a teenage peasant girl in charge of the army" my readers would be understandably skeptical. ;) But if I put sufficient background into it, I should be able to get the reader to at least suspend disbelief on it: "Yeah, I guess that could happen."

This particular scene is one of those: what I want to happen next looks highly implausible. And I'm not all that wild with the way I decided to handle it. But, hey, I can always fix it in the rewrite. :)

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

Well, feel free to toss it at me sometime! Who knows? Maybe I'd have something constructive to offer. (Can't guarantee that I will, but, well ... again, who knows?)

Hooray for everyone who's behind in LiveJournal! Yay!

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Have Fun on your trip! :)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

I hope that you are having a most excellent time, Lady Rowyn. It occurred to me that I could check on your progress by looking at BrennaBat's and Kendra's journals. No such luck.

Recharge and refresh, and enjoy the company of good friends.

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