Gloomy Sunday
Dec. 10th, 2006 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithThe snow that reached my knees a week ago only reaches my ankles now. It's melting, and with temps in the 40s expected most days this coming week, it will likely be gone by next weekend. Christmas in two weeks. No idea whether it will be White or not. I wouldn't mind if it was, as long as we didn't get 14" of the stuff in one fell swoop.
Along with the snow shoveling and wine pondering, I've been wrestling off and on with the ENDGAME rewrites. Do I need to change the first chapter? I guess not, but the second one needs cutting. Just hacked out the first ten pages and started it with the second scene. It works, I think. Will likely hack out the current chapter three in its entirety and replace it with something more "immediate" and less backstory-ish. I really thought that I was bringing readers up to speed with all the info, but apparently I overdid it.
So many scenes that I like will be going bye-bye, and I know from experience that even though I say I'll use them somewhere, I never do.
Whoever dubbed this "killing your darlings" wasn't kidding.
Reread editor's revision letter, especially the parts where she wrote that she really, really does like this story.
FYI, the Tuckerization is still on the block. Only a little over 2 days left to go. Buy it for yourself, or as a gift for that special someone. After all, what says I Love You more than a little humiliation in black and white?
More things for sale as well. The bidding for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mindyklasky's critique is getting serious.
And there are other items which didn't make the EBay page. Check those out here.
Along with the snow shoveling and wine pondering, I've been wrestling off and on with the ENDGAME rewrites. Do I need to change the first chapter? I guess not, but the second one needs cutting. Just hacked out the first ten pages and started it with the second scene. It works, I think. Will likely hack out the current chapter three in its entirety and replace it with something more "immediate" and less backstory-ish. I really thought that I was bringing readers up to speed with all the info, but apparently I overdid it.
So many scenes that I like will be going bye-bye, and I know from experience that even though I say I'll use them somewhere, I never do.
Whoever dubbed this "killing your darlings" wasn't kidding.
Reread editor's revision letter, especially the parts where she wrote that she really, really does like this story.
FYI, the Tuckerization is still on the block. Only a little over 2 days left to go. Buy it for yourself, or as a gift for that special someone. After all, what says I Love You more than a little humiliation in black and white?
More things for sale as well. The bidding for
mindyklasky's critique is getting serious.And there are other items which didn't make the EBay page. Check those out here.
