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this will be my last post till later
I'd say of the day, except that I hope to be squeeing at the Seahawks' unprecedented 7-1 record after the game tonight [g].
Anyway, so much for Ghost Light.
1) The only possible POV character did not work, in so many ways I could make a 100-item list of them all.
2) For the life of me I can't come up with enough plot to make a novel out of it, and it is decidedly not short story material.
3) My backbrain keeps telling me that we've been there done this one, because it's a reworking of a concept and setting that I wrote almost fifteen years ago (badly then, too -- I was trying to make a category romance out of it at the time), and I can't force myself into being interested in it anymore.
Which is too bad. I really did want to rework several of my early manuscripts (I've got about half a dozen) now that I have an outlet for them, but I suspect they're all a lost cause.
Well, I might be able to edit Much Ado in Montana into decent shape without rewriting it completely. But otherwise? Nah.
On the bright side,
1) I only have nine more chapters to edit on Cross-Country, then I can decide on cover art and start doing all the techie stuff to get it published.
2) I'm about three-quarters of the way done scanning the photos from the trip that inspired the book, some of which are going in the print version and some on my website.
3) I've collected a bunch of material on Mt. Rainier's history...
[gimps off to flip the chicken]
Anyway, so much for Ghost Light.
1) The only possible POV character did not work, in so many ways I could make a 100-item list of them all.
2) For the life of me I can't come up with enough plot to make a novel out of it, and it is decidedly not short story material.
3) My backbrain keeps telling me that we've been there done this one, because it's a reworking of a concept and setting that I wrote almost fifteen years ago (badly then, too -- I was trying to make a category romance out of it at the time), and I can't force myself into being interested in it anymore.
Which is too bad. I really did want to rework several of my early manuscripts (I've got about half a dozen) now that I have an outlet for them, but I suspect they're all a lost cause.
Well, I might be able to edit Much Ado in Montana into decent shape without rewriting it completely. But otherwise? Nah.
On the bright side,
1) I only have nine more chapters to edit on Cross-Country, then I can decide on cover art and start doing all the techie stuff to get it published.
2) I'm about three-quarters of the way done scanning the photos from the trip that inspired the book, some of which are going in the print version and some on my website.
3) I've collected a bunch of material on Mt. Rainier's history...
[gimps off to flip the chicken]