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May. 9th, 2005 12:03 amI want to tell anyone who will listen that I am past the scene that I was sticking on. Yah.
Forward progress continues
Forward progress continues
May. 9th, 2005
On Stupid Novel
May. 9th, 2005 01:55 pmDiscovered something about Stupid Novel (that's its working title) on the weekend. Stupid Novel is the one that's done (ha ha) and actually out somewhere. At least, it should be, it probably got lost in an email blackhole somewhere
Anyway, I was running out of avoidance activities so I thought I'd have a look at it to see if it was worth sending to an agent or did it suck as much as I thought.
I read the first page or so and it did suck as much as I thought :( In fact, it was worse. Which was really discouraging and I was upset, so I had to go and play a computer for a while. During which I told myself that I had been reading it "wrong", you know, how you look at each word (critical/editor mode) rather than at the overall effect (reader mode), which I always do when I'm reading something I've written. I know quite well that those times I've picked up something of mine thinking it was actually someone else's work, that I've liked it more.
So I go back and read that first scene and try to do it in "reading mode" and it doesn't suck quite as much, but it's awkward and rough. Then I get to the next scene, and it's, you know, not that bad really. And the next scene, And the next. And I have to be careful hear because I could quite happily reread the whole thing again. (I do like it.)
So it's the first scene that sucks. Which makes sense, seeing I wrote it after I'd finished the rest and it's not as "polished" as the rest.
Which means therefore, that it should be fixable. I should be able to edit into it what it needs.
Question, of course, is should I? Or is the time better spent working on something that isn't half a book, with too many characters & an overblown subplot & obvious patching.
I do like it though :\
Anyway, I was running out of avoidance activities so I thought I'd have a look at it to see if it was worth sending to an agent or did it suck as much as I thought.
I read the first page or so and it did suck as much as I thought :( In fact, it was worse. Which was really discouraging and I was upset, so I had to go and play a computer for a while. During which I told myself that I had been reading it "wrong", you know, how you look at each word (critical/editor mode) rather than at the overall effect (reader mode), which I always do when I'm reading something I've written. I know quite well that those times I've picked up something of mine thinking it was actually someone else's work, that I've liked it more.
So I go back and read that first scene and try to do it in "reading mode" and it doesn't suck quite as much, but it's awkward and rough. Then I get to the next scene, and it's, you know, not that bad really. And the next scene, And the next. And I have to be careful hear because I could quite happily reread the whole thing again. (I do like it.)
So it's the first scene that sucks. Which makes sense, seeing I wrote it after I'd finished the rest and it's not as "polished" as the rest.
Which means therefore, that it should be fixable. I should be able to edit into it what it needs.
Question, of course, is should I? Or is the time better spent working on something that isn't half a book, with too many characters & an overblown subplot & obvious patching.
I do like it though :\