After three false starts, I finally got a beginning for a new sexy sword and sorcery novel that's been stalking me from inside my head. (It's even signed up for Twitter and started following me there. Jerk.) I pounded out 6k words or so on Sunday and I'll probably only have to cut half of the first chapter.
Tonight the plan is work more on my dark fantasy short story for the 'Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations' anthology I'm submitting to.
In a weird way, the 'sexy sword and sorcery' story is teaching me, which is good because I have no serious plans to publish it. Since it doesn't have the same weight on it that I have put on Angel Odyssey, I feel ok about making mistakes. Making mistakes is good. It's good that I notice that they're mistakes and it seems to get that kind of sloppy writing out of my system, in a weird way.
It guess it's a warm up. Sometimes the first part of a novel (or short story) comes out almost perfect, Angel Odyssey's first chapter works pretty darn well and apart from some wordsmithing, it hasn't changed much. Other times, I front load my story with a bunch of 'telling'and then relax around page six or so and the story starts flowing naturally. Then I can go back, cut those first six pages and re-write the beginning.
Writing is fun. Maddening, but fun.
Tonight the plan is work more on my dark fantasy short story for the 'Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations' anthology I'm submitting to.
In a weird way, the 'sexy sword and sorcery' story is teaching me, which is good because I have no serious plans to publish it. Since it doesn't have the same weight on it that I have put on Angel Odyssey, I feel ok about making mistakes. Making mistakes is good. It's good that I notice that they're mistakes and it seems to get that kind of sloppy writing out of my system, in a weird way.
It guess it's a warm up. Sometimes the first part of a novel (or short story) comes out almost perfect, Angel Odyssey's first chapter works pretty darn well and apart from some wordsmithing, it hasn't changed much. Other times, I front load my story with a bunch of 'telling'and then relax around page six or so and the story starts flowing naturally. Then I can go back, cut those first six pages and re-write the beginning.
Writing is fun. Maddening, but fun.
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