First Day
Revisions to the prologue for Sacrifices is done. I've taken into account UWG critiques, both on this manuscript and on Only The Dead, and I think I've got a handle on some of my problems with plotting and character motivation.
So, one day's work and two pages in the books. Later today I'm going to tackle the first part, setting up the "boy meets girl" portion of the book.
I'm laughing as I write that last. My elevator pitches seem to follow a simple formula. In this particular case: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy brings girl back to life.
The complications that go into developing those different parts make the story. How do they meet? Who are they? How do they lose each other and why? All those W and H questions that I learned in journalism school. Which I need to answer--and make entertaining--so readers will follow along.
But it all comes back to the original, simple foundation. And I'm laughing because at some point down the road I hope to have an agent or editor who will skip ahead past the "meets" and "loses" and just asks me what the wrinkle is this time, what did my muse come up with now.
So, one day's work and two pages in the books. Later today I'm going to tackle the first part, setting up the "boy meets girl" portion of the book.
I'm laughing as I write that last. My elevator pitches seem to follow a simple formula. In this particular case: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy brings girl back to life.
The complications that go into developing those different parts make the story. How do they meet? Who are they? How do they lose each other and why? All those W and H questions that I learned in journalism school. Which I need to answer--and make entertaining--so readers will follow along.
But it all comes back to the original, simple foundation. And I'm laughing because at some point down the road I hope to have an agent or editor who will skip ahead past the "meets" and "loses" and just asks me what the wrinkle is this time, what did my muse come up with now.