…at the draft.
After a month-long break (okay, okay, more than a month!) I’m back. And of course, I’m talking about Beamstar. There’s just so much work to do, and I hardly know how to go about it! I’ve divided the novel into five sections of about 20,000 words each, and I’m taking them one at a time. I’m only using pen on paper now, listing all the things that must be added, deepened, explained. I do not consider this writing, or even revising. I consider that I am wasting time.
Ah, well.
Major areas needing revision in the first part of the novel: world-building, character motives, and backstory.
I’ll be posting about the revision process here, but with less frequency than I posted during the summer. I do enjoy writing about writing, but I’m busier now than I was then, and the blog is of lower priority than actually working on the book.
I just hope it doesn’t take long, because I am sick of living in the world of Beamstar and I want to move on. Other worlds await.
This has always been the hard part for me: I’ve already experienced the world. I’m bored now — time to move on! I don’t have any advice, but I commiserate with you!!
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I totally agree about wanting to move on — and yet, I can’t until I really get a perfect draft out there to send to agents. Hopefully (crosses fingers) that will be in a week or two. Like you, I’m ready to move on to the next project.
glad you’re back!!!
Shari
Weaving in those literary elements of foreshadowing, motivation, character development… I must say that it seems to get easier with each novel: I’ve learned so much through each process that I find myself covering those points as I go so that there’s not so much rewrite in the end. I must admit, however, that I haven’t perfected it. There seems to still be a great deal of revision.
Alex, I hope to learn about exactly those things you mention. I just wish I could skip the tedious work and move on – not because I find the book tedious, but the part where I have to rewrite what I already wrote, or parts of it. And thank you for commiserating! (Your first comment was in my spam queue – don’t know why…)
Shari, I have my fingers crossed for you!