So now that I've made my decision to spilt the plot lines into different books, I'm wondering if they really did belong together.
Great.
I guess I'm just going to have to see if I can figure out a different way for the main character to get to her end without needing the other characters. I think the story will be stronger and less cluttered, but I've got a lot of re-plotting to do.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Grass Is Always Greener
Monday, May 26, 2008
Still Around
Sorry that I haven't been blogging for the majority of the month. I realized that I was having a problem with my duel plot lines because they really didn't belong together. I had to go strip out the one plot line (and save it as the start of another book), which totally killed my word count. The other plot line was at about 8k words and, after a little bit of work my main plot line is to 15k. My goal is to get back up to 20k by the end of the week. At that time I am going to go back through what I have and do my first revision. Every 20k words I am going to do that (but only over those last 20k) so when I get to the end everything has been revised once. It's going to be a little harder to fit in writing because I picked up a second job that will last about three months. My goal is to keep up at around 4k words a week when I'm not revising and about 3 chapters when I am.
Also, my little sister got married last weekend so we've been crazy busy with all that and all the prep work. That's the above picture. I'm the one on the left, Meg is in the middle and our older sister, Ashleigh, is on the right. The wedding was very nice with minimal drama, which is good :)
Labels: general update, goals, my life