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50,000 words DONE, head ‘sploded
Ohman I’ve finally succeeded in writing my 50,000 words, which is about 200 pages, but my head is truly about to ‘splode. In many ways I’m monumentally pleased about all this, but what I have now learned (actually I learned this during my previous NaNoWriMo experience, but I’d forgotten it) is that if you write 50,000 words in a month (well ok it was a month and a week, but whatevs), those will NOT be quality words. They will be hasty, and they will lack elegance, and they will not be words that you want anyone to read as-is. But I figure, at least I’ve put the plot down on paper, and I can go back later to polish the language so that it’s delightful to the mind’s ear.
The good news is that I’m supa-happy with the new novel’s plot. It’s complicated and bizarre and fast-paced. It’s all about worldwide droughts, ritual human sacrifice and scientifically tagged seabirds that travel all across Central and South America. And it keeps changing and evolving way beyond what I had originally intended. Originally I was going to write the whole thing in first person past tense from the perspective of one protagonist, but it turns out I will have three completely distinct protagonists, and each will tell one big chunk of the story.
Before I continue with the book-writing (I think the novel will be a total of about 100,000 words), my next step is to edit the first 50 pages of the story so that it’s presentable to agents/editors. Later this month I’m going to my first Writers’ Conference and I need to have somethin’ new to present to any agents/editors I meet. Really, I shouldn’t be going to a Writers’ Conference until my new novel is FINISHED, because from what I understand, agents/editors aren’t much interested in unfinished works. But I figure I can give them a copy of Shadow Swans and a copy of the first 50 pages of my new novel, and then hopefully I can convince them that I have a killer “platform” (I just learned what this word means, and I’ll write about it in my next blog post) and we can all make gazillions of dollars from my future endeavors (of course, gazillions of dollars in the publishing industry is more like a couple thousand dollars, but I’m going to push for gazillions).
So this means that I need to learn how to prepare a “pitch,” and polish my “platform.” I’ll work on that and get back to you about what the F that means. Meanwhile, have a beautiful inspired riches-filled week. Melovesyou. ☺
BTW, for anyone who missed it, my last 3 blog posts contained the first 5 chapters of Shadow Swans. Here are the links:
Chapter 1: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Chapters 2 and 3: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Chapters 4 and 5: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Amazon link for Shadow Swans: http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Swans-eb...
The good news is that I’m supa-happy with the new novel’s plot. It’s complicated and bizarre and fast-paced. It’s all about worldwide droughts, ritual human sacrifice and scientifically tagged seabirds that travel all across Central and South America. And it keeps changing and evolving way beyond what I had originally intended. Originally I was going to write the whole thing in first person past tense from the perspective of one protagonist, but it turns out I will have three completely distinct protagonists, and each will tell one big chunk of the story.
Before I continue with the book-writing (I think the novel will be a total of about 100,000 words), my next step is to edit the first 50 pages of the story so that it’s presentable to agents/editors. Later this month I’m going to my first Writers’ Conference and I need to have somethin’ new to present to any agents/editors I meet. Really, I shouldn’t be going to a Writers’ Conference until my new novel is FINISHED, because from what I understand, agents/editors aren’t much interested in unfinished works. But I figure I can give them a copy of Shadow Swans and a copy of the first 50 pages of my new novel, and then hopefully I can convince them that I have a killer “platform” (I just learned what this word means, and I’ll write about it in my next blog post) and we can all make gazillions of dollars from my future endeavors (of course, gazillions of dollars in the publishing industry is more like a couple thousand dollars, but I’m going to push for gazillions).
So this means that I need to learn how to prepare a “pitch,” and polish my “platform.” I’ll work on that and get back to you about what the F that means. Meanwhile, have a beautiful inspired riches-filled week. Melovesyou. ☺
BTW, for anyone who missed it, my last 3 blog posts contained the first 5 chapters of Shadow Swans. Here are the links:
Chapter 1: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Chapters 2 and 3: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Chapters 4 and 5: http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_...
Amazon link for Shadow Swans: http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Swans-eb...
Self-Publishing: A Mean Old Dog (who loves to cuddle) (and might just make you rich)
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