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This morning I woke up before 5 and could not for the life of me get back to sleep. Seeing as I didn't fall asleep until 1-ish, I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing.
On the other hand, being unable to sleep but also unwilling to get out of bed, I put the hours to use trying to think of something more to write for The Novel That Refuses To Die - aka, Powers That Be, which keeps hanging in there despite the fact that I tend to only work on it once a year - *at most* - and sometimes don't added anything to it for several years (case in point - last time Microsoft Word tells me I opened it? November 2008, and I think all I did was correct a few spelling errors and punctuation).
Anyway, I'm still kind of stuck a few pages in to Chapter 3, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably going to have to rewrite large portions of the beginning if I ever want to even think about publishing it - which is kind of okay since I'm not really happy with the Prologue anyway. I started writing the story in... ::checks:: ... Yikes, 2002, and that in turn was based off a story I literally had all written out in my head, almost word for word, back when I was junior high-aged and very, *very* obsessed with "the true power of love" (and even if I was love-obsessed, I still curse myself for being too stupid to write the damn thing down then; having it mentally written almost word-for-word *then* is no match for the 10+ years of memory degradation I had to deal with when I finally did get around to the whole "I should write this down" sort of thing). Thinking back on a good chunk of my original plot devices, I can't help but cringe slightly and some of the stuff I came up with, but the over-all plot line is still pretty solid - I just have to tweak it a bit so it's less "OMG, TRUE LOVE WILL SAVE US!" and more "Love might come in handy, but this fight is only going to be won by a lot of blood, sweat, and tears... And it's probably reeeeeally going to hurt."
I think I've come up with a pretty good climax, though, part of which I wrote out this morning when sleep escaped me. So, you know, progress.
On the other hand, being unable to sleep but also unwilling to get out of bed, I put the hours to use trying to think of something more to write for The Novel That Refuses To Die - aka, Powers That Be, which keeps hanging in there despite the fact that I tend to only work on it once a year - *at most* - and sometimes don't added anything to it for several years (case in point - last time Microsoft Word tells me I opened it? November 2008, and I think all I did was correct a few spelling errors and punctuation).
Anyway, I'm still kind of stuck a few pages in to Chapter 3, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably going to have to rewrite large portions of the beginning if I ever want to even think about publishing it - which is kind of okay since I'm not really happy with the Prologue anyway. I started writing the story in... ::checks:: ... Yikes, 2002, and that in turn was based off a story I literally had all written out in my head, almost word for word, back when I was junior high-aged and very, *very* obsessed with "the true power of love" (and even if I was love-obsessed, I still curse myself for being too stupid to write the damn thing down then; having it mentally written almost word-for-word *then* is no match for the 10+ years of memory degradation I had to deal with when I finally did get around to the whole "I should write this down" sort of thing). Thinking back on a good chunk of my original plot devices, I can't help but cringe slightly and some of the stuff I came up with, but the over-all plot line is still pretty solid - I just have to tweak it a bit so it's less "OMG, TRUE LOVE WILL SAVE US!" and more "Love might come in handy, but this fight is only going to be won by a lot of blood, sweat, and tears... And it's probably reeeeeally going to hurt."
I think I've come up with a pretty good climax, though, part of which I wrote out this morning when sleep escaped me. So, you know, progress.