Writing Batteries Recharged
Mar. 9th, 2008 10:29 pm
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bluehairsue yesterday and going to the NaNoWriMo meeting, but I got a double dose of writerly enthusiasm. I redid the synopsis for of Empire of Dust for maeve_the_red changing basic details of the MacGuffin (which was an easy fix and will be an easy fix in the book, too). heleninwales and bluehairsue, I'll send you the new version within the next couple of days.if you haven't started your beta read yet. It doesn't make a huge difference to the plot or the characters, but it does make a bit more pseudo-scientific sense in the storyline. (i.e. the technobabble is a little less unbelievable even though the science is still so soft it's dripping off the bottom of the page).
So I got up at 8.00 this morning (an unheard of time for me, especially on a Sunday) to finish reading and start writing the last bit of the magic pirate adventure quest novel. I've written 3k words so far today and worked out most of what's going to happen in the 'stuff happens and then the good guys win' outline of the last two chapters.
In re-reading it I was amazed. It didn't read like a first draft at all - especially a first draft done at the rate of 50k words in 21 days under NaNoWriMo conditions. (I did my 50k words in November even though I was away for a week!) In fact, I think the book might seriously have legs. I was gobsmacked. I'm not saying it's deathless prose or anything, but it works better than something written so quickly has a right to. (Hey I long ago got to grips with the idea that I write sensible consecutive words with stories attached, rather than beautifully elegant prose and streamlined plots - likemevennen.)
It could even work as YA though the protag is 33 and it's got a couple of f*cks in it (the word not the action) an a couple of f*cks in it (the action not the word). Though they do happen on the page, they are not graphic. (BTW can I say f*ck on LJ without the net ghods stomping on me?) I think the protag being 33 is more of a contraindication than the f*cks for a YA these days.
Anyhow. It's 10.50 and I'm just about to make a big cup of coffee and start again.
bluehairsue yesterday and going to the NaNoWriMo meeting, but I got a double dose of writerly enthusiasm. I redid the synopsis for of Empire of Dust for maeve_the_red changing basic details of the MacGuffin (which was an easy fix and will be an easy fix in the book, too). heleninwales and bluehairsue, I'll send you the new version within the next couple of days.if you haven't started your beta read yet. It doesn't make a huge difference to the plot or the characters, but it does make a bit more pseudo-scientific sense in the storyline. (i.e. the technobabble is a little less unbelievable even though the science is still so soft it's dripping off the bottom of the page).So I got up at 8.00 this morning (an unheard of time for me, especially on a Sunday) to finish reading and start writing the last bit of the magic pirate adventure quest novel. I've written 3k words so far today and worked out most of what's going to happen in the 'stuff happens and then the good guys win' outline of the last two chapters.
In re-reading it I was amazed. It didn't read like a first draft at all - especially a first draft done at the rate of 50k words in 21 days under NaNoWriMo conditions. (I did my 50k words in November even though I was away for a week!) In fact, I think the book might seriously have legs. I was gobsmacked. I'm not saying it's deathless prose or anything, but it works better than something written so quickly has a right to. (Hey I long ago got to grips with the idea that I write sensible consecutive words with stories attached, rather than beautifully elegant prose and streamlined plots - like
mevennen.)It could even work as YA though the protag is 33 and it's got a couple of f*cks in it (the word not the action) an a couple of f*cks in it (the action not the word). Though they do happen on the page, they are not graphic. (BTW can I say f*ck on LJ without the net ghods stomping on me?) I think the protag being 33 is more of a contraindication than the f*cks for a YA these days.
Anyhow. It's 10.50 and I'm just about to make a big cup of coffee and start again.
