It’s been a long time…

02Oct08

…I shouldn’t have left you without a nice blog to read through!

So here’s the deal, I am not feeling DYTCiYC. I have to come to the realization that it’s not writer’s block that is keeping me from working on that story, because I find myself wanting to write on everything but that story. Everytime I go to work on it, it ends up staying on my laptop for about a week and I get maybe a sentence if I’m lucky. I always like to read through my things before I work on a new chapter, if I haven’t worked on it for a while. It helps me to get back in to the mindframe of the story, to reconnect with the characters. But everytime I read through this story, I feel no connection and I can’t seem to wrap my mind around what it is that I’m trying to say in the story. It no longer feels like my story.

As an artist one must have a point of view and a voice that comes through in their work. I don’t hear my voice after like the fourth or so chapter. I can’t really explain the feeling I have towards the story because I don’t think it’s an horrible story, it’s a good read. But it’s just not my story. I don’t know. My friend is suggesting that I set it aside and start something new, and I think I’m going to have to. Because now it’s just painful to even read through it for me.

I’ve never just gave up on a story, I mean I haven’t been writing for a long time, but in all my works I’ve either re-worked it, i.e. Angel’s story or put it on hiatus while I did more research work, i.e. CM and LA. But I had hoped to have it finished before November since I am participating in NaNoWriMo this year and I knew I would not have the time to work on two stories at once. So it’s gonna have to be on hiatus, I can’t tell you how sad I am…I was so excited to start this work.

Speaking of NaNoWriMo, I need to start preparing for this. Start the count down…4 weeks and 1 day. I have no idea what story I am going to be doing. I have no character stories no outlines nothing O_O but not to worry it’s only the second day of October. I have a plan to do little post to let you guys know how I go about planning for such an event to maybe help others who want to do this next year and the years to come. I always think the best help comes from people who have done it themselves, the more recent the better.

I know you are wondering what I have been doing with my time since I haven’t been updating like I should, well while I was working on the last couple of chapters of Bianca and Evan’s story I was starting to worry that their story might be to similar to Jade and Nick’s story. So I had to read over the story and of course I’ve started on draft two, so I’ve been working laboriously on edits for that story. As far as the stories being the same, there are some similarities, but I think they are more differences that there is nothing to worry about.

Working on draft 2 led me to remember that I had started on draft 2 of The Halloween Story, so I went back to working on that as well. I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I want to post the revisions, but I know that there will be at least one more revision before I attempt to send it out to publishers and there’s no saying whether or not it will be picked up or not. So if you see a The Halloween Redux Story don’t be surprise.

I also have been doing loads of research for CM. You see this is my first and only (at this moment) non-contemporary romance work. I haven’t settled on if it will be science fiction or fantasy. Which means I haven’t decided on if their world consists of magic or technology. But I have come up with some questions and thoughts that I have to address before I can start working on the actual story again. I’m starting to come up with the background of everybody’s people and then I’ll start on their own personal backgrounds. I created a wikispace in anticipation of all this work to be posted on the web, so look forward to that in the future.

I think that’s really all for now. I should try to sleep or at least try to do some work.

Cheers!

J.L.

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Tags: C.M., DYTCiYC, H.P., Jade, NaNoWriMo 2008, The Halloween Party Redux