i started to read my novel again, but stopped at about page 5.
i kind of tried to read it with the eye of someone completely fresh to the story.
isn't it frightening that it took me two years to get the necessary distance?
i'm kind of okay with that - as long as it helps me, though.
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this time i found that the pack is quite a diverse one.
it was not a brand new experience, though. i kind of knew it right from the beginning.
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let me explain the simile.
in my novel, there are parts, sections or paragraphs that are filled with actions. the characters move forwards, confront each other, try to explore something.
there are other parts where they ponder about their lives and relationships and some other parts that are descriptions. sure the descriptions are there to underline a feeling, or make the reader anticipate an action and so on...
but then again, some, if not most, of these descriptions are just tapestry. decoration. almost poetry, if you like. and not tightly needed in the course of actions. these descriptions are valueable. i like them dearly. most of them are palpable, full with emotions and all that stuff we love in emotional poetry.
not the cheesy kind, mind me. not in my novel, or any of my writing.
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so, back to the 'pack'. i fancy my novel a pack of wolves. (my main character is a werewolf, btw, a really good one at that, with lots of social awareness. she only kills 'bad' people.:)
there are individuals, but they all have to behave as one, as a pack.
and as far as i see now, my individual wolves are not acting as one.
they diverge.
see what makes me sad about my novel?
i'm thinking about splitting the pack.
with lots of considerate writing, i'd have a crime-story like novel with less emphasis on the description and more on the investigation and action.
and as for all that poetry-like stuff?
i fancy of saving them for other times.
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3 comments:
Well, it sounds kind of like you've got too many riches in the original. Maybe focusing on one primary aspect, whatever is the most commercial perhaps, might be the way to go. But definitely keep the other stuff. You'll find a use for it some day for sure.
thank you Charles
you know, focusing was not on my priority list when i wrote Copper Moon. i wanted to tell as much as possible.
and this shows in the writing and makes it raw (in a way).
it's not that the novel is not a really easy read, i wouldn't mind that at all.
i'm not that profit-oriented at all, but to see the story published and see the 'leftover' riches published in another way may act a trigger to keep me working on it.
Love that photo.
I just finished my first novel, now in the hands of an agent in NY, and I am SO happy I didn't give up this time and actually finished this story.
As one author of numerous top selling novels said to me a while back:
don't give up 'cause you will feel so good when you've finished. and she was right. I do feel so good about finishing my book and now I can't wait to write another one.
we all find our ways around the roadblocks and hurdles, I hope you do too. it is worth it!
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