And about that novel
Sep. 1st, 2008 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanFor those of you who don't read this journal for my oh-so-sharp, terrifically original political raving, an update.
At the end of July I had gotten through the end of Volume 1 of the novel. I emailed my editor and asked if I should make an effort to get the manuscript to her the next day or if Monday would do. She wrote back to say that another manuscript being published several seasons sooner than mine was just about to land on her desk, and I should take my time. A few exchanges made me realize that she meant, really, that I should take my time.
This was just as well, since Eric, heroically reading right behind my frenzied revisions, discovered a continuity error, or more accurately, a time warp, created by my splitting chapters and attempting to retain the strict alternation between the two viewpoint characters, Ruth and Arry. It also meant that Raphael could read the revised version and point out any other difficulties.
I've been working on resolving the time warp ever since. This book is my version of Love and Rhetoric without the Blood, so I am not going to bring in any people with guns, but I have been attempting to make all the additional episodes I'm writing have less conversation and more events in them than has been the case for this volume so far. As is usual with my drafts, most of the action is concentrated in Volume 2. So fixing the time warp has created a better balance, I believe.
I've been complaining volubly to anybody who will listen, but I'm not actually as tired of this book as I expected to be. I believe it has a smidgen of merit.
Golly, I just tried to spell "smidgen" like "pigeon." I think I should go to bed. Sweet dreams, you guys.
Pamela
At the end of July I had gotten through the end of Volume 1 of the novel. I emailed my editor and asked if I should make an effort to get the manuscript to her the next day or if Monday would do. She wrote back to say that another manuscript being published several seasons sooner than mine was just about to land on her desk, and I should take my time. A few exchanges made me realize that she meant, really, that I should take my time.
This was just as well, since Eric, heroically reading right behind my frenzied revisions, discovered a continuity error, or more accurately, a time warp, created by my splitting chapters and attempting to retain the strict alternation between the two viewpoint characters, Ruth and Arry. It also meant that Raphael could read the revised version and point out any other difficulties.
I've been working on resolving the time warp ever since. This book is my version of Love and Rhetoric without the Blood, so I am not going to bring in any people with guns, but I have been attempting to make all the additional episodes I'm writing have less conversation and more events in them than has been the case for this volume so far. As is usual with my drafts, most of the action is concentrated in Volume 2. So fixing the time warp has created a better balance, I believe.
I've been complaining volubly to anybody who will listen, but I'm not actually as tired of this book as I expected to be. I believe it has a smidgen of merit.
Golly, I just tried to spell "smidgen" like "pigeon." I think I should go to bed. Sweet dreams, you guys.
Pamela
