An update on the endless novel
Nov. 4th, 2008 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanI'm actually rather excited that it's Election Day, but for people who are tired of the whole set of shenanigans, a post about writing the Same Book After All This Time:
Volume 1 went off to my editor a few weeks ago, thank goodness. I was very grumpy about having to write a last chapter for it. I expect I'll get yelled at for its being abrupt, and whether I write yet another chapter or dig my heels in and snarl that it's not the end of anything, it's just a stopping point because book-binding isn't up to much these days, apparently, remains to be seen.
Anybody who has had the misfortune to talk to me in the past month will already know that I am also grumpy about having to write a new first chapter for Volume 2. I had originally thought I'd have to write two chapters, but mercifully, that is not the case. I started having a little fun with it when I decided to refer to the beginning of The Whim of the Dragon and use a letter from one of the viewpoint characters to bring people haplessly beginning with the wrong book up to speed. If one is writing Love and Rhetoric without the Blood, one can't bring in a man with a gun, but it would seem that one can bring in a letter.
I'm now having even more fun letting the character eviscerate a number of recent incidents in order to examine her soul, and soon I can bring the other viewpoint character on stage and they can have a conversation that I hope very much will be extremely funny.
Then I can get on with the revisions, at least if I can find all the notes I made about them when I was still fussing with Volume 1.
Volume 2 is due in March. The reissue of The Dubious Hills should be out sometime in 2009. On a very limited local front, things are looking excellent.
Next time I write two books, though, I'd prefer to do it on purpose.
Pamela
Volume 1 went off to my editor a few weeks ago, thank goodness. I was very grumpy about having to write a last chapter for it. I expect I'll get yelled at for its being abrupt, and whether I write yet another chapter or dig my heels in and snarl that it's not the end of anything, it's just a stopping point because book-binding isn't up to much these days, apparently, remains to be seen.
Anybody who has had the misfortune to talk to me in the past month will already know that I am also grumpy about having to write a new first chapter for Volume 2. I had originally thought I'd have to write two chapters, but mercifully, that is not the case. I started having a little fun with it when I decided to refer to the beginning of The Whim of the Dragon and use a letter from one of the viewpoint characters to bring people haplessly beginning with the wrong book up to speed. If one is writing Love and Rhetoric without the Blood, one can't bring in a man with a gun, but it would seem that one can bring in a letter.
I'm now having even more fun letting the character eviscerate a number of recent incidents in order to examine her soul, and soon I can bring the other viewpoint character on stage and they can have a conversation that I hope very much will be extremely funny.
Then I can get on with the revisions, at least if I can find all the notes I made about them when I was still fussing with Volume 1.
Volume 2 is due in March. The reissue of The Dubious Hills should be out sometime in 2009. On a very limited local front, things are looking excellent.
Next time I write two books, though, I'd prefer to do it on purpose.
Pamela
