I talk about Company of Ravens, which I've never fully explained so it may be a bit obscure.
My hands are very cold right now. My bedroom is freezing.
I have been writing! Proper writing, not PhD junk! I did five pages on Thursday - I'm horribly slow cos I keep going back and adding/revising stuff - and I spent today thrashing out a storyline step by step, so now there are even more Post-it notes on the wall! I was never comfortable with the main plotline I'd taken with Company of Ravens; I'd saddled myself with a lot of inner-city grit and violence which a country girl like me knows precisely zilch about. So I've switched over to another strand of characters, who were originally going to be introduced much later, and I'm working through events from their side. I'm much more comfortable with this one. But again with the slowness; I'm probably at mid-chapter two material at the minute.
I'd like to salvage some of the original way it was going but I'm not sure how well the two would sit together. The new storyline features people who know all about vampires etc. while the original direction is from the point of view of people who don't have a clue. So one's giving away what the other is trying to hide. Plus (and I'm here going purely on the five pages from Thursday) the new storyline has a lighter tone to it which sits awkwardly with what was going on with the original plot. That's what I think, anyway; I could be being paranoid because I was still unhappy about working with the original plot.
I'd like to ask you guys what you think except that five pages isn't much to go on, and having worked through the new plot, there are now adjustments I wanna make. Oh the dilemmas!
In other news, the reason I've started back on the novel is that my PhD revision has finished... for now. I've revised every chapter now and the pertinent ones are in my internal examiner's hands at the minute to check that, at the very least, I'm on the right track. Also my Sims addiction is continuing in fits and starts. Creating Sims is giving me ideas for characters in my (still very vague) realistic novel.
I'm currently reading two books concurrently: a biography of Willaim Pitt the Younger (I have a fascination for that sliding period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and a novel about a black law professor whose controversial and paranoid father has died, leaving him to deal with some mysterious "arrangements", which, at this point of the story, has led to the death of one person that we know of.
Anyway, I have talked a lot. I need to get offline and get my hands warm, and let Mum and Dad get to sleep (dialup outlet is in their bedroom). Bye!
I have been writing! Proper writing, not PhD junk! I did five pages on Thursday - I'm horribly slow cos I keep going back and adding/revising stuff - and I spent today thrashing out a storyline step by step, so now there are even more Post-it notes on the wall! I was never comfortable with the main plotline I'd taken with Company of Ravens; I'd saddled myself with a lot of inner-city grit and violence which a country girl like me knows precisely zilch about. So I've switched over to another strand of characters, who were originally going to be introduced much later, and I'm working through events from their side. I'm much more comfortable with this one. But again with the slowness; I'm probably at mid-chapter two material at the minute.
I'd like to salvage some of the original way it was going but I'm not sure how well the two would sit together. The new storyline features people who know all about vampires etc. while the original direction is from the point of view of people who don't have a clue. So one's giving away what the other is trying to hide. Plus (and I'm here going purely on the five pages from Thursday) the new storyline has a lighter tone to it which sits awkwardly with what was going on with the original plot. That's what I think, anyway; I could be being paranoid because I was still unhappy about working with the original plot.
I'd like to ask you guys what you think except that five pages isn't much to go on, and having worked through the new plot, there are now adjustments I wanna make. Oh the dilemmas!
In other news, the reason I've started back on the novel is that my PhD revision has finished... for now. I've revised every chapter now and the pertinent ones are in my internal examiner's hands at the minute to check that, at the very least, I'm on the right track. Also my Sims addiction is continuing in fits and starts. Creating Sims is giving me ideas for characters in my (still very vague) realistic novel.
I'm currently reading two books concurrently: a biography of Willaim Pitt the Younger (I have a fascination for that sliding period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and a novel about a black law professor whose controversial and paranoid father has died, leaving him to deal with some mysterious "arrangements", which, at this point of the story, has led to the death of one person that we know of.
Anyway, I have talked a lot. I need to get offline and get my hands warm, and let Mum and Dad get to sleep (dialup outlet is in their bedroom). Bye!