Teh Statusez (8/21)
Aug. 21st, 2012 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkRF: 40,000 words / 79 pages
Goin' through another round of editing for RF. I've got severe writer's block for EK II, so that's on the backburner for now, and after I finish this round of editing for RF (which will hopefully make the manuscript SO MUCH BETTER, but I feel that I'm going to have to do a lot of reordering of events after I finish the writing itself), I'll probably have to stop writing for a while in favor of...real life stuff. Boo.
What was wrong with the draft: plot was a bit iffy. Whenever I read the draft, I felt that something was "missing", but I could never articulate what that was. Basically, it boiled down to: the Plague of the Passive Protagonist (again...argh) and Confusing Stuff Happening For Plot. Also, the Resistance wasn't doing much.
Target for RF is still 50,000 words / 100 pages. By my calculations, that should make roughly...a 200 page novel? Yeah, that's still kinda short by YA novel standards, but I guess it's long enough to carry the story.
I'm still hoping this project will be query-able, but from time to time some worries surface in my mind. Namely: (1) Is no one going to read a book about a college student? (2) Is all the stuff about my protagonist going to class and doing homework too boring?? (Sadly enough, that's what my college life actually looks like...)
Goin' through another round of editing for RF. I've got severe writer's block for EK II, so that's on the backburner for now, and after I finish this round of editing for RF (which will hopefully make the manuscript SO MUCH BETTER, but I feel that I'm going to have to do a lot of reordering of events after I finish the writing itself), I'll probably have to stop writing for a while in favor of...real life stuff. Boo.
What was wrong with the draft: plot was a bit iffy. Whenever I read the draft, I felt that something was "missing", but I could never articulate what that was. Basically, it boiled down to: the Plague of the Passive Protagonist (again...argh) and Confusing Stuff Happening For Plot. Also, the Resistance wasn't doing much.
Target for RF is still 50,000 words / 100 pages. By my calculations, that should make roughly...a 200 page novel? Yeah, that's still kinda short by YA novel standards, but I guess it's long enough to carry the story.
I'm still hoping this project will be query-able, but from time to time some worries surface in my mind. Namely: (1) Is no one going to read a book about a college student? (2) Is all the stuff about my protagonist going to class and doing homework too boring?? (Sadly enough, that's what my college life actually looks like...)
