I really should get on with chapter 2 but I find myself putting it off. I started it this morning and I've just wasted an hour that I could have spent working on it doing anything but. I think that the enormity of the task has just hit me. My beloved G will be no more. I'm trying to tell myself that the new chapter 1 is better for him not being there and I actually like MC better now as they're not the drip that they were before. Now that has to be a good thing.
Job for the week:
"New" chapter 2 must be finished by next Sunday.
I don't really know why I'm putting it off because like I've said the new chapter 1 is better and the ideas that I've had for the revised version of the book are quite exciting. So I should just get on and do it shouldn't I? "Dear God yes," you all cry.
Okay then, I will.
Sorry G but you are collateral damage and have to be sacrificed for the greater good. It's funny in a way because when Jan reviewed the 2 chapter 1's for me she pointed out that G actually wasn't very nice and that is just the opposite of what I wanted.
Right I'm going to shut up and get on with it. Just needed to give myself a bit of a pep talk. Thanks for listening.
Onwards and upwards.
3 comments:
Couldn't you keep G filed away somewhere to use in a different book? You seem attached to him and maybe you just need to find the right place where he will fit in without causing you problems.
I know it can be really hard to settle to working on the thing you know you should be working on. People say to me it'll be better once I get going. Know what? They're right!
It is sometimes hard to let go of a character you've become fond of - but it does show you've done your job and created a real person.
Can you put him in new story? It might be easier to write him out of this one if you know it's not the end.
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Joanne - you're right. There's nothing better to get you started than to get started.
Suzanne - Maybe G does deserve his own story. It's not something I'd thought of but now that you and Joanne have both mentioned it that seems like a good idea.
Thanks ladies.
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