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Authors and Procrastination
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
2,000 words already tonight, and three and a half hours or so's good writing time to go.
Uilos:
*applauds N*
I just finished a chapter of character fiction for NYJ tonite, so I feel quite accomplished. Doing the fight choreo has actually energized me to go back to my Novel instead of tapdancing around it
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: neurovore on June 06, 2009, 02:50:06 AM ---2,000 words already tonight, and three and a half hours or so's good writing time to go.
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You always amaze me! Way to go!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Uilos on June 06, 2009, 03:03:26 AM ---*applauds N*
I just finished a chapter of character fiction for NYJ tonite, so I feel quite accomplished. Doing the fight choreo has actually energized me to go back to my Novel instead of tapdancing around it
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I'm not sure I'm being overly sensible; I'm working on The Big One - currently at about 435,000 words done, probably going to be 470-500kwords in total, likely to not be really sellable because it's a) ineluctably pre-9/11, it's a novel formulated in that decade of hope between the end of the Cold War and the 2000 election in the US and the world has changed too much since and b) I have been working on it off and on since 1996 and I don't see any way it can not be uneven because of that. I just want to get the damn thing finished, though. There are characters in it I have had in my head for twenty-three years.
Of other projects I could be working on, the first in one potential series world is sitting with an agent and I am trying not to think about it; the first in another potential series world (of which I have two more complete and a third in progress) I have just withdrawn after too many years of it sitting with an editor who said in public it was almost publishably good but would need a lot of editing work to make it so, because it became clear that that editor, with all good will, would never in practice have the time to do that editing work; so I intend to try to fix that as the Next Project (not that I thought anything was wrong with it when I sent it in, I just also hope I am a better writer now than I was five years ago) and send it elsewhere. There are also a few standalone things I am working on, but none completed
meg_evonne:
I have a 10 year project that I love, but like you mentioned I've learned so much. Even the POV is all screwed up. But it's MY project, so it doesn't matter. Whether I ever go back to it--eh 50/50. So did the agent give you an idea what type of editing they thoght it needed? Grammar, order, cutting or any of zillion of other reasons?
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