Hi friends. This is the last post before #1000wordsofsummer starts next Monday, May 31. Some of you will be trying to finish long-term projects. Dusting off drafts that have been sitting in drawers or trying to push through to the end of something you’ve been toiling on for years. This book can feel heavy in your mind. There are all kinds of feelings and history and moments in your life already attached to this work. You may be thinking to yourself: Why haven’t I finished this already?
My problem is not knowing WHICH to return to? Is it the novel? The short story? The memoir? A new part of all three?? I fear focusing on one disappears the other and I REALLY want solid shiny pages to submit to agencies and presses.
How do you pick one..and stay with it without the angst?
Hi! I'll be working on the novel I started during #1000wordsofsummer last year. Not really a second draft, more like a real first draft as opposed to just a very wordy outline of what is going on. It's nice to be doing it in the summer again, because the story takes place during a summer, so it feels more like I'm living in the story again.
I’ll do it for Sid.
My problem is not knowing WHICH to return to? Is it the novel? The short story? The memoir? A new part of all three?? I fear focusing on one disappears the other and I REALLY want solid shiny pages to submit to agencies and presses.
How do you pick one..and stay with it without the angst?
Hi! I'll be working on the novel I started during #1000wordsofsummer last year. Not really a second draft, more like a real first draft as opposed to just a very wordy outline of what is going on. It's nice to be doing it in the summer again, because the story takes place during a summer, so it feels more like I'm living in the story again.