Or something.
But I think I’ve found it! I really really think I’ve found the right spot to enter this story. The right setting, the right confrontation, the right characters in place. I’m LOVING it. It has a HOOK!!!!
What I’m not loving is the fact that the second scene doesn’t follow the first scene. And I could have nightmares about trying to find the right place for the story to rejoin the path of its being. Tomorrow may be soon enough for that.
I’m finally past the new material in the opening scenes and into revision material. For now that means it’s going faster. All of the preliminaries have taken place: Teagren has been introduced as the champion for the Timberlanes, she’s received the Kiss of Promise, her father has cautioned her, and the High King has instructed…
THAT was productive. I opened up Tuesday’s file in *False Perceptions* and remembered why brushing up the first three chapters sounded like such a good idea yesterday. I was stonewalled. Couldn’t figure out how to write the scene I’d started. It appears that I can have the result from a different scene so, minus 200,…
Yesterday I reached The End of Joy Comes in the Morning, version 7. And today I’m beginning Version 7.5. Why? Good question! Version 7 is basically a first draft, strange as it sounds. Most of it was written from scratch in 14 writing days. As such, I know it will READ like a first draft….
In case you were wondering, this month’s Celebration of New Christian Fiction is now up at Jeanne Damoff’s blog. Stop by Jeanne’s to be introduced to various Christian writers and their take on where Christian writing is going, metaphorically speaking.
I don’t seem to be a consistent blogger at the best of times, but when I’m not first draft writing, I’m even worse than usual. Maybe it’s because I don’t have any great progress to report? Could be. December isn’t turning out exactly like I’d planned. (Does any month? Never mind, I don’t want to…
The biggest challenge I’m facing thus far in the new fantasy story I’m developing is the religion. I’ve been struggling over this for more than a month now, trying to piece together a fake true religion. No wonder I’m confused! I’m basing my main character’s homeland very loosely on Israel in the Old Testament. It…