La Vie En Rose for 2005 May 21 (entry 0)

(2) Sat May 21 2005 14:42 PST Cleaning hoodlum house: I made a schedule for my novel. If all goes well I'll be finished revising and on my way to finishing in three weeks. Then I'll be done at the end of July. I divided it into 16 chapters (about 15 pages 1.5 spaced each) of which I've already written 9 and a half. So I'll revise three chapters a week for the next three weeks--that's two days per chapter, three while I'm in LA. Then I'll write a chapter a week (and do some revisign) till I'm done! Whee. The tenth chapter, which I've been stuck at for the last five months is where the idea of the whole thing came from.

So it's actually not too long. I was kinda afraid it might be. But all I have to do is cut out the useless crap and not write any more useless crap. 16 chapters isn't too long. And they're pretty short.

And speaking of my novel, here's a funny story of what was said one night while I was trying to work with Becca. I was debated whether I should keep my London scene, or whether I should rewrite it as leaving with the group for Serbia--or at least part of it--from Edinburgh, which I think makes more sense historically. But I like my London scene, and I explained to Becca why:

"She becomes her own woman, like--"
"She's a hoodlum?"
"No, she just...starts to break rules."
"That's what hoodlums do," said Becca in a knowing voice.

It was really funny when it happened.

Comments:

Posted by Becca at Sun May 22 2005 08:53

Rach, I think you should make her second love interest after that annoying guy in the coffee shop, so that all the readers hate him, and by default hate her (for only a little bit) for possibly liking him, and that way there will be more reader involvement in your novel. It sort of be like Umbridge in HP, although not really and .... see comments like this is why I just tell you these things while I'm distracting you from writing instead of leaving a message on your website.

And I know you'll never use my ideas (even the serious, well thought out ones!), but maybe if I leave them as messages, other people will tell you how awesome they are, and you'll use them!

Posted by rachel at Sun May 22 2005 19:57

Becks, I already told you I am considering the second LI, and basing him off the coffee shop guy is a tres bon idee!