1400 hard words
Oct. 20th, 2006 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olmueI'm up to 1400 words today, which rounds out to about 10,500 total. I feel like it's total dreck. I like my plot, but the characters are hard to write, which is not normal for me. I'm cautiously optimistic on the writing-by-plot-thread idea, though. It's spurring ideas for me on other threads as well. And I AM making progress, which is good.
In the meantime, a set of lovely characters have moved into my brain, complete with a setting and a set of reactions/internal interpersonal conflicts. I hate when this happens. They are much funner to be around, probably because they are much closer to people I have been, to what-ifs and maybes I've been close to. Nothing autobiographical, not in the big sense. But they have feelings I can dig deep into. Unfortunately, now I need to concoct a situation for them and a set of external struggles for them. The internal ones, great. The things they're outwardly fighting for...well. It's not the first time this has happened, and that book still isn't done, either. And I've got this other WIP, the one I'm really supposed to be working on. The one with ten thousand words done on it. I keep telling myself I can write the lovely characters once I've finished the funny plot one. I just don't have enough time in the day. It's really not, not, NOT fair.
And lastly, I'm *sigh* trying to be patient regarding the three agents with queries and the one who has a partial. I want to send my next batch out, but the agents I'm waiting on are ones I really respect and would love to work with. And if they don't feel the same about me, I'd be content with even a single line of feedback. I'd definitely want to incorporate that before sending out any more queries. I've never been one to let the cake cool before eating it, though, so the wait is HARD.
In the meantime, a set of lovely characters have moved into my brain, complete with a setting and a set of reactions/internal interpersonal conflicts. I hate when this happens. They are much funner to be around, probably because they are much closer to people I have been, to what-ifs and maybes I've been close to. Nothing autobiographical, not in the big sense. But they have feelings I can dig deep into. Unfortunately, now I need to concoct a situation for them and a set of external struggles for them. The internal ones, great. The things they're outwardly fighting for...well. It's not the first time this has happened, and that book still isn't done, either. And I've got this other WIP, the one I'm really supposed to be working on. The one with ten thousand words done on it. I keep telling myself I can write the lovely characters once I've finished the funny plot one. I just don't have enough time in the day. It's really not, not, NOT fair.
And lastly, I'm *sigh* trying to be patient regarding the three agents with queries and the one who has a partial. I want to send my next batch out, but the agents I'm waiting on are ones I really respect and would love to work with. And if they don't feel the same about me, I'd be content with even a single line of feedback. I'd definitely want to incorporate that before sending out any more queries. I've never been one to let the cake cool before eating it, though, so the wait is HARD.
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Date: 2006-10-20 05:51 pm (UTC)Good luck with the agents. The waiting *is* soooo hard!
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Date: 2006-10-20 07:14 pm (UTC)No. I can't say that. I finished one. I can finish another.
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Date: 2006-10-20 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-22 02:17 pm (UTC)