Staying busy
Here I am after a full night of writing and housework. (Sometimes I wait 'till dawn to sleep but I'm always awake again before noon.) I worked on my Alyssa Project, doing character development in preparation for the first major revision. What I'm planning to do is scrap what I had and rewrite from the beginning in first person POV, using the other manuscript as reference. I'll be adding new elements into the plot... it will be great by the time I get done with it or else. LOL... What I didn't like about the other manuscript was (1) dialogue too stilted, and (2) characters not developed enough.Last night I tried an exercise I found posted on an AOL message board for writers. The thing to do: choose one animal and ten things you can see right now. List them... then write a piece using all eleven elements. I did this and wrote a cute poem about my dog, Bear, waking up in the middle of the night. It turned out so good, I'm not going to post it here because I'm planning to polish it up some and send it to some publishers. Wish me luck on that one!
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