First, I started rewriting my WIP (side note: if I'm rewriting it, does it count as a new WIP?). Not only did I start over at page one, but I'm trying my hand at first person POV. *she cries as she gazes longingly at her ~55K word third person WIP*
This was going well until, in a blog-induced epiphany, I came up with my at-this-moment-most-awesome first sentence. But it's in third person and I'm six hand-written pages into my shiny new first person draft. Crap.
For now, this isn't a big deal. The thing to focus on is that I picked up a pen and started scribbling in the first place. It's been ages since I've felt possessed to write in a mad fury, grammar and penmanship be damned.
The second cool thing that happened this week actually freaks me out a bit, but sooner or later the cat's gonna be out of the bag so I might as well tell you all at once.
My friends over at Wicked & Tricksy asked me to write this week's guest post. Eek! Not wanting to disappoint those who have shown me such support, I agreed and gave it Ye Ol' College Try. Check it out
Happy Friday!
I love the "grammar and penmanship be damned" phase of writing.
ReplyDeleteAnd I loved your article on mentors in Spec Fiction. Where are the women?
Thanks, LG! Doesn't it feel so good to just start writing in a mad frenzy? I was bummed yesterday afternoon when the conference I was sitting in ended. How DARE they break me from my writing trance? :) And yes, where ARE all the women mentors?
ReplyDeleteAnd a freaking awesome guest post it is!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the process of rewriting too. All I can think of to describe it is that it is both difficult and exhilarating.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Margo!
ReplyDeleteCookie, yes. Exactly! Hard as hell and totally exciting all at the same time.