Writing for myself.
Many apologies for being so quiet. I have been to two weddings in
eight days. One was a Chinese wedding, absolutely fabulous. Ten
courses! The other was what I would call beautifully tradition.
Loved them both.
My writing has had a major change. I don't know if you remember that I said that I usually wrote like crazy to get a first draft, no matter how bad, and this time I was doing it all differently. This time I was perfecting it as I go. My agent had OKed the plot and so I was off.
Well, after an after-dinner discussion with my eldest, I had a sudden change of heart. Old story scotched, new story up and running. I have spent the last I-don't-know-how-long banging out the outline, a 30,000 word outline which is more like a first draft. It's the way I work best.
It is dreadful, of course, and there are a couple of gaps in the storyline, but I have it all down and am now excited about editing.
I am not running this past my agent. It's not that I don't trust her, I do totally. It's just that I bothered her with the last outline and I'm not writing that one and I don't want to waste her time again. Supposing this one grinds to a halt too. Also, I think I'm very bad at writing a proposal. I like this idea and I am going with it. It's differnt to anything I've written before and may never be published but I came across this quote the other day from Cyril Connolly. 'Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.'
OK, this is me writing for myself. Fingers crossed someone else will like it too!
My writing has had a major change. I don't know if you remember that I said that I usually wrote like crazy to get a first draft, no matter how bad, and this time I was doing it all differently. This time I was perfecting it as I go. My agent had OKed the plot and so I was off.
Well, after an after-dinner discussion with my eldest, I had a sudden change of heart. Old story scotched, new story up and running. I have spent the last I-don't-know-how-long banging out the outline, a 30,000 word outline which is more like a first draft. It's the way I work best.
It is dreadful, of course, and there are a couple of gaps in the storyline, but I have it all down and am now excited about editing.
I am not running this past my agent. It's not that I don't trust her, I do totally. It's just that I bothered her with the last outline and I'm not writing that one and I don't want to waste her time again. Supposing this one grinds to a halt too. Also, I think I'm very bad at writing a proposal. I like this idea and I am going with it. It's differnt to anything I've written before and may never be published but I came across this quote the other day from Cyril Connolly. 'Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.'
OK, this is me writing for myself. Fingers crossed someone else will like it too!
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Totally with you on the 'writing for yourself' thing. I have been so bogged down over the past years by being in the mind-set of "will THEY like it?", or "will THEY get it?" rather than simply putting the words down and saying TO HELL WITH YOU ALL (sorry for the blasphemy!) and doing it because I want to!
Good Luck with this one x
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