need_to_write (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} need_to_write) wrote,@ 2007-02-09 20:29:00 |
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Writing is a killer
While it sounds like I'm goofing off, reading comics and ranting, I've actually had a very good writing week. After months off, yes, months, due to travel and family and friends needing me for various tasks, I'm back and soooo happy to be writing. I did a lot of agent querying and other business during that time, not to mention reading to keep my hand in, but writing is where it's at, baby!
To be fair, I was in dire need of a break since I worked hard from last spring until mid-October, writing every day and having to force myself to take breaks let alone days off. Talk about a groove! I'm ready though for another stint like that. Let's go!
I've been working on my WIP, cutting massive amounts (like the first 60, yeah...60 pages!). My goal is to get it down from 354 to 250 pages. I'm about a quarter of the way through and I'm feeling really good about it. I have a brand new ending and I'll have to rework some of the middle to set it up, but it's pretty well defined in my brain, so I think it will just be fun. As my friend Eileen Cook told me today (after reading my notes on her WIP), "Now if I could only find people to make all the changes and let me take all the credit then things would be perfect." She also said, " It is a darn good thing that we like writing-
otherwise the process would be a killer."
Huh? It's not killer???? Yeah, okay. She's right. For me the fun part is the revision anyway. The first draft is what kills me.
What parts do you love most about writing?
While it sounds like I'm goofing off, reading comics and ranting, I've actually had a very good writing week. After months off, yes, months, due to travel and family and friends needing me for various tasks, I'm back and soooo happy to be writing. I did a lot of agent querying and other business during that time, not to mention reading to keep my hand in, but writing is where it's at, baby!
To be fair, I was in dire need of a break since I worked hard from last spring until mid-October, writing every day and having to force myself to take breaks let alone days off. Talk about a groove! I'm ready though for another stint like that. Let's go!
I've been working on my WIP, cutting massive amounts (like the first 60, yeah...60 pages!). My goal is to get it down from 354 to 250 pages. I'm about a quarter of the way through and I'm feeling really good about it. I have a brand new ending and I'll have to rework some of the middle to set it up, but it's pretty well defined in my brain, so I think it will just be fun. As my friend Eileen Cook told me today (after reading my notes on her WIP), "Now if I could only find people to make all the changes and let me take all the credit then things would be perfect." She also said, " It is a darn good thing that we like writing-
otherwise the process would be a killer."
Huh? It's not killer???? Yeah, okay. She's right. For me the fun part is the revision anyway. The first draft is what kills me.
What parts do you love most about writing?
