Mom gave me the new Terry Pratchett book for my birthday, Unseen Academicals, and I spent many lovely hours today reading it. It's awesome. I had to set aside Jim C. Hines's The Mermaid's Madness to read it, and in turn I had set aside Fritz Leiber's Swords & Deviltry to read that. I am surrounded by awesome books. And now that I'm done with Bell-Men, I can read them all muahahaha at least until NaNo starts next Sunday.
Next Sunday! And I'm already wondering if maybe I should throw out Tiger and write a YA story I have in mind instead--but I think I need to spend more effort worldbuilding and plotting and ultimately writing the YA story. Tiger is just a fun throwaway idea, perfect for NaNo.
And despite the reading, I find Bell-Men creeping into my thoughts frequently. The writing is solid, and the plot and pacing is good up to about 3/4 through. Then things feel rushed and the ending frankly sucketh mightily, with a bonafide deus ex machina. I'm already coming up with ways to fix all that. I wasn't intending to tinker with Bell-Men until probably January, but I suspect I'll be writing new scenes for it this week. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the final wordcount comes to 100,000.
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Bad endings are like placeholders. Eventually the muse figures out the way things are meant to end. Which, in my experience, always feels pretty sweet ; )
Happy Birthday - or did I miss something - or did I not miss something and just forget...again :c(
Yep, sounds like you've got things under control.
Natalie--I like that philosophy. :)
BT--I Twittered about it but I didn't post it here, actually. So no, you didn't miss anything.
Alan--tenuously, as usual. :)
Reading is glorious, isn't it. Bask in it.
Until next Sunday, that is. Muahahahaha...
I'm starting to get verrrry nervous about Nano this year. I have ideas for a lot of what will happen in my nano book, but I don't know why it all will happen. Maybe I should stop reading long enough to figure that out, huh?
reading is one of my favorite things
Reading is good. (NaNo, is it that close already? Eek!)
Horror Girl--mine too. I wish someone would just pay me to sit around reading.
Jamie--I'm trying to ignore the calendar. It's freaking me out, man.
Happy Belated Birthday... You're a writing wonder.
Thanks! I'm sitting here killing time by jotting down notes on the Bell-Men revisions. I just wrote "why why why?" so it's not going too well.
Oh, how I wish that too! To be paid to read someones book, maybe there would be less unemployment in the world... Mmm, but I don't think much else would get done ;-)
Hope you had a great day for your birthday, K.C
Thanks, my birthday was actually fairly pleasant although I did have to work that evening. Also I turned Old this year, which wasn't fun, but I've made peace with being Old since I already had Grouchy down pat. :)
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