Holiday Over
The not-writing lasted for... ten days, is it? I did some work on the house and then ran out of things to do to keep myself amused. Today I started work on the re-write of The Siblings Come To Power.
I can't really call it a re-write because I am barely doing any writing - just cleaning up any typos. The actual writing will start in about a week. First I need to read through the book and take lots of notes on what needs changing and what doesn't. I don't normally do that with a novel I've written. But because this was a very new project for me I was unsure of how to tackle the story. How I originally wrote it works to a point but then crumbles on too close an inspection. So what I've decided to do is throw out the rigid structure I had planned and let the story flow more easily. I got too caught up in giving each sibling a voice in each chapter, which made some passages unnecessary and others rushed and poorly explored. During the re-write I will rectify that problem :)
The great part is that I am still super excited to work on the book. I was worried my enthusiasm would dwindle - it is such a huge story! - but I'm still very excited about it a year after I started formulating plans for it in my mind.
I can't really call it a re-write because I am barely doing any writing - just cleaning up any typos. The actual writing will start in about a week. First I need to read through the book and take lots of notes on what needs changing and what doesn't. I don't normally do that with a novel I've written. But because this was a very new project for me I was unsure of how to tackle the story. How I originally wrote it works to a point but then crumbles on too close an inspection. So what I've decided to do is throw out the rigid structure I had planned and let the story flow more easily. I got too caught up in giving each sibling a voice in each chapter, which made some passages unnecessary and others rushed and poorly explored. During the re-write I will rectify that problem :)
The great part is that I am still super excited to work on the book. I was worried my enthusiasm would dwindle - it is such a huge story! - but I'm still very excited about it a year after I started formulating plans for it in my mind.