Getting the work done
I've been working on the description and dialogue in The Seagull Rebellion and it is slow going! I've officially turned on my editor-self now and am picking every paragraph apart unmercifully. It is so very tough for me to learn this part of the craft of novel writing.Meanwhile I divided my first novel into chapters and loaded it into the Rough Draft software so I can go over it the same way. I tried to edit it before and didn't get beyond chapter two. This time I'm going to be harder on the manuscript and get rid of some references that are not needed. Probably I won't work more on that until next month at the earliest because I want to leave the rest of November open for working on The Seagull Rebellion. I'm adding to the word count still, even though I passed the goal (50,000 words) and want to get as much done as possible so I can update my word counts until the end of the month, when that ability will be gone forever. Right now I'm at 50994 words.
I joined a critique group on AOL where I'm surrounded by awesome published writers of different genres... ie. romance, suspense, young adult, etc. I think there's one other children's novelist, at least. This should be interesting. I just love the way this group works together... I was part of the group last winter too but had to quit when I took two college classes last spring. To date, I still haven't had the nerve to submit one of my own chapters - I'm waiting until after the first major revision. The main reason I still have AOL is that the writer's resources there are so good.
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