Writing status/update/rambles
Feb. 27th, 2022 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkMy first beta is about halfway through Novel #4 and has promised to finish on Tuesday. In addition to the subplots that I *know* need to be fleshed out, they've identified some parts that could be rewritten, and I think their suggestions make sense.
Hopefully I can brainstorm with them about the missing parts of the story this week, so I can start tackling the heavy revisions this weekend. I might even take a week off from my day job in March to finish revising so I can get more CP opinions in April.
I originally had a list of other story ideas I wanted to write when I was done with this one, but I'm actually feeling pretty tired/overwhelmed by this book, so I think I'll take a writing break after this. I mean, it will take my agent about a month to read the manuscript anyway, so I know I can have a least a month off.
This isn't the book that's taken me the longest to write, but it's the book that I've rewritten the most. In the past, I've always started with/built the plot around a romantic relationship, and I don't tend to rewrite my romances a lot because once I have an idea for what the relationship is and how it develops, there's...honestly not that much room for rewriting. (I've never completely changed my mind about how a romantic relationship develops before.)
But this book? I think every single scene has been rewritten multiple times.
I've rewitten entire character personalities.
I've rewritten character interactions.
And most of all, I've rewritten the mystery and investigations so many times (and still have more rewrites to go).
So...yeah.
(I am slightly terrified of what I'll have to do if I ever get contracted to write the sequel for this book, but I just have to remind myself that (1) that's not worth worrying about until/unless I get a book deal for this, and (2) *hopefully* the process wouldn't be as hard, now that I know the characters and their backstories.)
Hopefully I can brainstorm with them about the missing parts of the story this week, so I can start tackling the heavy revisions this weekend. I might even take a week off from my day job in March to finish revising so I can get more CP opinions in April.
I originally had a list of other story ideas I wanted to write when I was done with this one, but I'm actually feeling pretty tired/overwhelmed by this book, so I think I'll take a writing break after this. I mean, it will take my agent about a month to read the manuscript anyway, so I know I can have a least a month off.
This isn't the book that's taken me the longest to write, but it's the book that I've rewritten the most. In the past, I've always started with/built the plot around a romantic relationship, and I don't tend to rewrite my romances a lot because once I have an idea for what the relationship is and how it develops, there's...honestly not that much room for rewriting. (I've never completely changed my mind about how a romantic relationship develops before.)
But this book? I think every single scene has been rewritten multiple times.
I've rewitten entire character personalities.
I've rewritten character interactions.
And most of all, I've rewritten the mystery and investigations so many times (and still have more rewrites to go).
So...yeah.
(I am slightly terrified of what I'll have to do if I ever get contracted to write the sequel for this book, but I just have to remind myself that (1) that's not worth worrying about until/unless I get a book deal for this, and (2) *hopefully* the process wouldn't be as hard, now that I know the characters and their backstories.)
