This project has been placed on the backburner for now while I pursue other artistic endeavors. I hope to return to it within the next year.
soon you’ll drip precious rubies
Today, they slit TR’s throat twice.
…sure it was just for the commercial…but it was a moment i don’t think i’ll ever forget. the sound, the same reaction from everyone in the room. the collective sigh when we were certain it didn’t actually happen.
The End is in Sight
I am running out of steam. I don’t have a handle on how this story ends or where it is going. I am going to take a break for a few days and mull things over. Maybe make a definitive outline before I worry about writing the end. It stands at nearly 30,000 words right now and it is a bare bones draft. I have written at least 15,000 of those words in the past two weeks. it is an incredible leap forward and I finished everything that was already plotted.
Now I will finish the plot in detail, know where everyone is and what they’re doing and what the reader will see. I am excited for the end. It’s going to be action packed.
I’ve been afraid of description lately. Someone once told me to add more dialogue, but now I am ignoring description. Something in me thinks the action will not move if there is description. But the dialogue is becoming redundant because everyone is in the process of finding out information others and the reader already know.
I asked Amanda to help me with story development for the end–she is here and available and we will work in due course. I must acquaint her with the characters and the story. She was very excited when I asked her to help me.
A Slow Down to Speed Up
Found a fantastic outline tool. I have run to the end of what was arleady written/outlined and am going to take a few days now to make a very detailed outline. Goal is to have the outline done by Monday. It will be a lot of work, but it will help keep everything organized and show me exactly what I have already.
I will be taking the month of November to leave this project. I am participating in National Novel Writing Month and I will be spending the entire month challenging myself to winning (meaning writing a 50,000 word novel) the challenge.
My ultimate goal, will be announced later in the week, once I have a layout of where the story is going and what is already completed.
I am struggling to keep everything straight. I overanalyze in general. Doing this outline in a detailed, timely manner is going to be an exercise in throwing away the restraints in my head. I will not overanalyze and just go for big plot points through to the end.
Currently, the book is at 35,000 words, the goal is a short novel of 60,000, which will be filled out during editing.
midnight murder
Frank Matowski is dead. All of the characters are connected and I have given away nothing of the plot in the first sentence. I have made it past the first hump–past everything that was already plotted. Now comes the challenge–bringing everyone to the climax, making the villains more evil than they are…not that the heroes are all that good, but everything is relative.
It has always been a challenge to write truly evil characters–it’s almost as if I’m embarrassed to admit what sinister things pop into my mind for these characters to do. None of them are pure evil, though and I get caught up trying to keep everyone human. I think though, that for the first draft, I am going to commit and go balls to the wall (if you’ll pardon the expression) and write everyone the way I feel they should be written. It’s easier to scale back during edits than to develop the character further. It’s a lot of fun, though, dealing with characters who are capable of almost anything, while having all of their actions within the realm of belief.
Oh, boy, progress!
I have committed to 1,000 words a day, at least 6 days a week, if not 7. So far, the goal has been met–I will have to play catch up after this weekend, though, since I am out of town on a road-trip.
Major breakthroughs have been made.
Settled and Moving
Things have settled again–a great relief, although I am not out of the woods by any means–that will not happen until next year and I am coming to terms with that. Now that I am on sturdier footing, I can begin work again on this project. I have thought about it non-stop every minute I am not working on it. I have decided the best thing to do is to write in sections and then string them together since that is how everything has been coming together in the first place. I am not worrying about masterful description or dialogue. That will come with the edits. I want a skeleton of a novel. I want it to be finished and hten I want to move on. I want this story to come to life and be read by multitudes of unknown people. I am branching far from where Haley and I left off. Characters are changing–situations becoming more real. It’s no holds barred in the little world of Annie & Greyson.
Sometimes we are given too much…
…and things must be put by the wayside. I think about this project every day and regret that I wasn’t able to finish by my original August 1st deadline. However, things are falling into place and in the meantime, I have taken to reading historic fiction about New York City to tide me over until I can focus once again on this project. There is so much potential waiting for me to come and get it and I will. Once I get back to square one with my life and apartment, there will be a sense of stability and comfort which I need to finish.
holding pattern alpha
I am in an indefinite holding pattern on this and all other projects I’m currently working on until I am able to get my life in order and concentrate on more than just day to day happenings.
My prediction is that I will be back at work on this by September. Until then, if something gets done, it will be a blessing.
Moving on from Molloy
Haley is currently reading Molloy’s little part. I am now confident that I have started to figure him out and I am very excited to move on.
