Another week has come and passed. How time passes quickly when you're revising your novel! I am currently organizing the very novel I had been revising a few months ago. Anything to keep myself distracted from the DREAMING queries I sent out! To be fair, I've been on somewhat of a row with this novel, as I've found some new ideas that I'm trying to squeeze in. For the time being, I have titled the project Love and Hate, though that will obviously not be its final title. You can find some more information about it here, even though I haven't yet created a page dedicated entirely to the manuscript yet. That's because it's far from being in its final form, with whole sections that still need rewriting. Then the whole novel needs to be edited for a first final draft. Then edited maybe two or three more times before I send it out to first critique partners. Then to some beta-readers. Before and after sending it out it will be of course re-edited. Then it would enter the querying phase. Woah... I've just summed up how a book gets written! X'D This novel has sure been a handful. Unlike DREAMING, this story has not been waiting around in my computer files for years. I started this project for a camp NaNoWriMo three years ago. Within the month I had written 50,000 words. And then I just kept going. Fast forward to three years later and it's gotten even longer. And I absolutely adore it. But it's very long. I've had to cut it up in 5-6 part documents to keep an eye over everything. I'm not even sure if it will work as a single volume or if it's better to be cut in two. Don't even get me started on the fact that I have ideas for a sequel to that as well! Over the last week I've listed all of the parts, sequences and scenes chronologically. Now all I have to do is go through the whole thing and makes sure that everything is in order, and that all the parts naturally move from one to the next. Basically, I'm going to have to check whether the story is readable and logical. All the while I'll be filling in the blank spots: the scenes and even sequences I haven't written out yet. There's nothing more beautiful than coming to a sentence that explains the scene and a whole blank page underneath it. <3 And one thing for example that I haven't written yes is the finale. Don't get me started on that. The writer's block of writing the finale One of the reasons why it's taken me so long to get to the point of having the whole story planned out is because something was missing. To be more precise, the finale was missing. Which, as you might have guessed, is a pretty substantial part of every story. The reader wants something grandiose. Something satisfying, something cathartic. I had a lot of trouble finding that finale because in my novel, it's two humans against a monster more powerful than both of them. I had to figure out how they could face it and win, obviously. I would never dare to kill my main characters... What I really wanted was a satisfying climax, a big battle. But it still had to be logical all things considered. The characters couldn't just waltz in and destroy the monster, knowing full well that they had fought against it numerous times before and lost every time. However, I also didn't want the 'battle' to just be this tiny event between three people. I wanted something bigger. It took a while, but I managed to find a solution that brings in a big, epic finale. Unless, of course, I later on decide that I want to change it! So yeah, that's what I've been up to. I realize that this post went up quite a bit late, I've been working on said novel and I'm also prepping a new DREAMING query letter. Last but not least, I am also in the midst of preparing a travel to Ireland! That'd be something to write about, I'm sure of it! See ya next week!
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