Not *again*.
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swan_towerDear Book:
I hate you.
No, really. We've gotten to that stage of the writing, the stage where I really just want to light you on fire. It happens almost every book (except for the rare ones that just sail straight out of my head -- of which you are SO not one), but this time, I really, really mean it. Why? Because I just figured out that I could solve about 90% of my pacing problems . . . by moving your start date back three months.
This falls into the category of "annoying change" rather than "major seismic upheaval," since most of what I have to do is change the dates on scenes. But that's about 100K worth of scenes I have to re-date
FUCK I just realized that doesn't work.
Because there's a scene that has to happen on a specific date, and that specific date is before what I thought would be the new start date. But there are other events that have to happen on other specific dates, and SON OF A BITCH I HATE YOU.
<beats head into desk>
Never again, people. Never again. I am so very done with this historical fiction thing, where I can't just decide when stuff happens because history says otherwise. I've been doing this for four books, and I will never subject myself to it again*.
I'm sure I'll find a way through this. But it is going to cost a lot of pain and suffering along the way. (It already has.) And right now, I kinda want to light the book on fire.
No love at all,
Your Writer.
*Of course I'm lying. It's like childbirth. In a few years, when I've forgotten the pain, I'll probably decide this is a good idea again. But right now, I mean it.
I hate you.
No, really. We've gotten to that stage of the writing, the stage where I really just want to light you on fire. It happens almost every book (except for the rare ones that just sail straight out of my head -- of which you are SO not one), but this time, I really, really mean it. Why? Because I just figured out that I could solve about 90% of my pacing problems . . . by moving your start date back three months.
This falls into the category of "annoying change" rather than "major seismic upheaval," since most of what I have to do is change the dates on scenes. But that's about 100K worth of scenes I have to re-date
FUCK I just realized that doesn't work.
Because there's a scene that has to happen on a specific date, and that specific date is before what I thought would be the new start date. But there are other events that have to happen on other specific dates, and SON OF A BITCH I HATE YOU.
<beats head into desk>
Never again, people. Never again. I am so very done with this historical fiction thing, where I can't just decide when stuff happens because history says otherwise. I've been doing this for four books, and I will never subject myself to it again*.
I'm sure I'll find a way through this. But it is going to cost a lot of pain and suffering along the way. (It already has.) And right now, I kinda want to light the book on fire.
No love at all,
Your Writer.
*Of course I'm lying. It's like childbirth. In a few years, when I've forgotten the pain, I'll probably decide this is a good idea again. But right now, I mean it.
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Date: 2010-08-12 11:14 am (UTC)I'm likely to keep writing historical fiction, though, so I'm glad you're suffering with me.
Wait. That might not be the nicest thing to say.
I like your historical fiction, so I'm glad you're miserable?
Um. It's apparently not my morning for nice.
How about 'there there, dear'?
There there.
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Date: 2010-08-12 07:25 pm (UTC)