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Still ahead of the curve
Nov. 7th, 2017 09:26 pmI've started the second part of The Sultan's Strength, telling the same story but from Dani's point of view.
I did not want to write the third chapter of Karen's Story. Not because of writer's block or because writing is hard or even because I was tired. I did not want to turn my own buried feelings and thoughts into words, or make Karen act out the things that have so terrified me. But the point of this year's Nano was to bring some of those feelings into the light, to look at them, explore them, try to make some sense of them. It seems I touched a nerve but that has to be a good sign. And I got through the chapter and sent it off to my Betas. If this novel makes it to editing that chapter will definitely need some work; I think Karen was far more self aware than she has been in previous chapters, but she shouldn't be or her self delusion has no credibility.
Anyway, we've moved on to Dani but we begin with the central tragedy of Karen's life, the thing that was hinted at in her part but which she never named out right. It goes a long way to explain why she is who she is today.
And I've got to just under 16k in 7 days. Tomorrow, I'm looking to get to 17k in the morning but I have a thing in the evening, so that will probably be as much as I'll manage. There will come a day when I can't drag any words out of my head and on to the page, but it has not come yet.
I did not want to write the third chapter of Karen's Story. Not because of writer's block or because writing is hard or even because I was tired. I did not want to turn my own buried feelings and thoughts into words, or make Karen act out the things that have so terrified me. But the point of this year's Nano was to bring some of those feelings into the light, to look at them, explore them, try to make some sense of them. It seems I touched a nerve but that has to be a good sign. And I got through the chapter and sent it off to my Betas. If this novel makes it to editing that chapter will definitely need some work; I think Karen was far more self aware than she has been in previous chapters, but she shouldn't be or her self delusion has no credibility.
Anyway, we've moved on to Dani but we begin with the central tragedy of Karen's life, the thing that was hinted at in her part but which she never named out right. It goes a long way to explain why she is who she is today.
And I've got to just under 16k in 7 days. Tomorrow, I'm looking to get to 17k in the morning but I have a thing in the evening, so that will probably be as much as I'll manage. There will come a day when I can't drag any words out of my head and on to the page, but it has not come yet.
