Just a month before summer ends, y’all. Can I get an amen?
Tennessee just isn’t the best place during hot and humid season–well, it’s better if you have a pool, but I’ve only been swimming once this year. If I ever move, I’ll be going northwards for certain.
Anyway, I don’t have many updates. The most exciting things I’ve done this summer is watch Youtube videos, read the Percy Jackson series, and dabble in the drafting of the third installment to the Eurothian Chronicles (that’s what I decided to call the series). I guess I’m just waiting for something to happen, like school to start. Turbulence is still held captive by my beta readers, thus I haven’t been editing it yet, as I would rather have the physical manuscript back before I make any big changes.
Also, I might as well fill y’all in, I’ve been thinking. Honestly, I probably shouldn’t have been doing that heinous act, but I’ve come up with some ideas. Let’s just go back to the start.
So I found a really cool writer’s help book by Steven James, right? I started reading through it, compared Turbulence (and R.I.P.) to what this guy says a book “should” and “shouldn’t” do, and have concluded that, simply, my novels aren’t good enough (quite simply, they need to be more “twisty” . . . among other things).
Okay, that’s a harsh and depressing way to put it. Let’s say, instead, they deserve to be changed a bit.
Even without the revelation the book gave me, I already kind of disliked what I’ve written, so I believe even without this catalyst I would have come to a similar conclusion.
So what to do?
This is where my thinking comes in. (Amazing, right?)
Since R.I.P. is already published, and I don’t really want to make it completely null and void, I’ve been continuing on with my initial plan–three books, each detailing a climactic period in Ranguvar’s life. However, just because I’m writing them as normal, doesn’t mean I have to publish them like that. I’ve toyed with the idea of smashing all three together and changing the story up to clip out the unnecessary bits, and make the plot more coherent. But in order to do this, I’d want to rewrite R.I.P.. Furthermore, I’ve decided to go with traditional publishing if at all possible–how’s a proposal of a book in the middle of a series they’ve never heard of, sound?
Part of me says I should just start over. Or maybe give up–but I know I can’t do that. Another part of me says I should just keep going, see what happens. After all, I’m going to be headed to college for the next few years, and not much will be happening in my writing career. So far, I’ve been keeping on, keeping on. But I hate to think what I’m doing is futile.
Eh. I dunno.
Honestly, I’m probably just overthinking this and making it more complicated than it has to be.
Maybe I just have writer’s block. A weird, unknown kind. Lol.
If y’all have any ideas or comments, please feel free to share them.
-WordTechnician
P. S. Very sorry for the lame title. I couldn’t think of anything off the top of my head, so I went with that genius line instead.
Word Technician 