Querying

[clarentine]

It's a rainy Thursday, and the Queen is in Richmond, and because they've closed our entire office block for security reasons (and the street between my building and Capitol Square, and my parking garage) I had time to finish up the edits I wanted to make to Cavalier, and then put together those queries I'd intended to send last week. I've posted five new queries and sent the requested partial manuscript off.

I'd forgotten how useful a significantly long stretch of hours could be when one is in a mood to write. *g* The edits were polishing, really, but I'd been dithering over them for a while. Once I sat down to work this morning, with corrinalaw's comments, they went quickly.

I'm not sure what comes next. It's still spring, and the design jobs are keeping me hopping in what there is of my spare time. Probably I ought to concentrate on those, since their timeline is finite, and let the two stories I have percolating brew a bit longer. The pirate story is not ready; I went awry somewhere, after a promising start, and haven't yet figured out where. Probably I ought to simply do the novel_in_90 thing again and just get it written, and worry about the editing later. The Bells story that I wrote this winter with novel_in_90's help has plenty of plot - shock! amaze! - but needs more characterization.

(In fact, I believe the problem with shooting for consistent word count is that I'm going to consistently miss out on the characterization I love so much but that takes a while to develop; I don't know if this dooms this means of generating words, or not. I guess we'll see how hard it turns out to be to flesh Bells out.)

Comments

[ter369.livejournal.com]

If you start a novel_in_90 later this month, I'll do it, too (and I'll post about that on a just-you filter).

No pressure, don't feel obliged to agree. It was just fab watching your achievement grow on the Bells manuscript.

[clarentine]

Temptress!

I may very well do it, though. I do want to get the pirate stuff down on paper. I know the characters already, and have some plot and a bunch of words...but the momentum faded somewhere around the 100-page mark, and I stopped at 113.

(And wouldn't you know it, I went to see where I'd stopped and got caught up in the story. I will have to finish this one, at some point, if only to do justice by the characters who have already stepped off the page.)

Let's just see how the rest of the design stuff plays out, time-wise. I won't wish myself less work, because this work is my traveling money, but I wouldn't mind having it not be quite so hectic.

Short answer: stay tuned. *g*

[ter369.livejournal.com]

Short answer: stay tuned. *g*

Okay!

Me, too. I have to travel next week. Then from May 12th I have no other distractions for a long time.

Pressing On

[docdad2.livejournal.com]

Novel in 90 sounds like a good start. I considered it last year when Bear proposed it and had such a HUGE following. I'm faced with a similar problem that I think NI90 may help me blast through. Thanks for the reminder
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Re: Pressing On

[clarentine]

I may pick up the pirates and toss them at novel_in_90 toward the end of the month. Once you get back from Wiscon, you could probably jump right in.

(Wish I was going to Wiscon, too, but my travel budget was drained. I've got it tentatively penciled in for next year.)