Novels are relationships

[celestialgldfsh]

Another round of revisions done. This time I added 4,000 more words where I took my character to hell and back. Celeste is a strong lady, and by the time I was done, she was a sobbing, bloodied mess curled up fetal position in a shower.

Go me!

This means I'm trying to switch my brain around so I can get back into Minstrels of Fate mode, which is

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[foxfyre]

Oh yes. Me and Palace of Bone have been separated for months and it's only the prospect of losing it permanently that brought me running back, ready to put in the necessary effort to work things out.

First we're going to get our priorities straight, then go for counseling.

[celestialgldfsh]

I think that sounds like a good plan. Maybe this data scare will prove useful as motivation.

[msstacy13]

Four years ago I started a V2 story.
It was supposed to be 5000 words.
10000 tops.

And a few months ago I thought that if I just
strapped a shaving basin on my head and went at,
I'd come out somewhere around 320,000 by the end of the year
and finally be done with it.

[celestialgldfsh]

Stories do tend to take on lives of their own, don't they?

[msstacy13]

Some of them do.
Others seem to have read the outline,
whether you wrote one of not,
and just lay there under the keyboard,
waiting for you to type them.

I'm not complaining about either kind.

[talea_st_amour]

I've been with my love for 2.5 years and not done yet, but I can see the end in sight. Even at this stage I'm holding on too tight to this obsession knowing in my heart there will never be another like it. *long lovelorn sighs*

[celestialgldfsh]

That sounds like me and Normal. Even the time periods match up. It's all sorts of exciting and scary when the end is in sight...

[eclectic_writer]

I'm in the honeymoon phase with my current WIP (that magical place where fights aren't fights, they're still "disagreements) but the analogy is pretty accurate. Though, if you look at it that way, we authors play pretty fast and loose.

Hussies! ;-P

[celestialgldfsh]

Ha! Yes. I was actually wondering how short stories would be categorized under this analogy. Flirtations? Flings?

[eclectic_writer]

I'd call them flings. :)

Hmm. So if an author publishes multiple novels in their lifetime would that be considered polygamy? Lol

[ext_722137]

I know exactly how this feels! I'm not in love with my novel #2 yet either. (And I've only written 10 pages). My heart has been with my first novel The Trouble with Twenty-Two, for the past two years. I'm sending out query letters now (again, after multiple revisions) and trying to distract myself with novel 2. But it's not working. Querying is agonizing! Thanks for your blog posts, it's great knowing someone out there can relate