FINISH IT!
So my last minute decision to go to RWA was supposed to be an "I'll-just-go-to-learn-and-hang-out-con" because I didn't have anything to pitch.
But I've decided that I'm going to finish one of my half unfinished novels by the time RWA rolls around so I can pitch it. I've been working on this paranormal romance for too long. First I got caught up in research (it's partially set in WWII) and then...well, I think I started working on another novel because I think it started getting politically preachy again.
I'm fine with political, it's preachiness that I'm trying to stay away from.
Though the more I think about it, the more I think the politics is a part of it. The protag is a reverse Tomb Raider; instead of taking artifacts from random people around the world, she's a thief who steals them from museums and rich people in order to bring them back to the places they were originally (and wrongly) taken from. And unlike most biracial protags in fantasy, this protag actually is grappling with issues of dual heritage and being colonizer / colonized and the shades of grey in between.
But it's supposed to be a romance.
Even if it's not really pitch ready, I just need to finish this stupid thing and see what I have. (I keep thinking of that SNL skit where the guy keeps yelling, "Fix it!" only I think of him yelling, "Finish It!")
But I've decided that I'm going to finish one of my half unfinished novels by the time RWA rolls around so I can pitch it. I've been working on this paranormal romance for too long. First I got caught up in research (it's partially set in WWII) and then...well, I think I started working on another novel because I think it started getting politically preachy again.
I'm fine with political, it's preachiness that I'm trying to stay away from.
Though the more I think about it, the more I think the politics is a part of it. The protag is a reverse Tomb Raider; instead of taking artifacts from random people around the world, she's a thief who steals them from museums and rich people in order to bring them back to the places they were originally (and wrongly) taken from. And unlike most biracial protags in fantasy, this protag actually is grappling with issues of dual heritage and being colonizer / colonized and the shades of grey in between.
But it's supposed to be a romance.
Even if it's not really pitch ready, I just need to finish this stupid thing and see what I have. (I keep thinking of that SNL skit where the guy keeps yelling, "Fix it!" only I think of him yelling, "Finish It!")