I'm proud in myself, in a sort of sick, writer way. I restarted Only You on page 1. I didn't reread it and heavily edit, trying to save the structure of the story. I reflected upon what I wrote, and found it subpar. I came up with a pretty new plot (not completely changed) and started over.
Eek. Honestly, I've never been brave enough to do that before. I think it was easier, because though I wrote over 20k, I wrote it in about eight days. It wasn't good writing. It needed to be let go. Last night, I opened a fresh document, and wrote the first page. It's obviously got a long way to go, but it was the start. And I'm not going to throw away all those words. For starters, I worked really hard on those steamy scenes, and they will be easily transferable. I'm keeping the settings and the characters, but most everything else will change. So those 20k were not a complete waste of time. I learned a valuable lesson this Nanowrimo, and that is, don't write two novellas during the process. Next year, I'll use Nano to burn through a novella in two-ish weeks, and then I'll make my own rules and attempt to edit the hell out of that novella in the next two weeks. I think that would be a much more useful way for me to utilize November. In more specific and less vague writing news, I finished editing Waiting for You and it will be sent to the editor later this week. I really, really love this story and I hope you do too! I have a bunch of notes from betas on Dance for You, but I've been in the editing game for months now, and need to get back to some hard writing first. I'll be tackling those mid-February. And, for a random story, Santa brought my hubby and I a peloton bike this year. Yesterday I was doing a ride through the mountains, which I can now do in my basement, and I was getting so excited to write the Ex-Pats series, which I'll be starting to write this spring. I wish I could have taken notes while I was riding. I can't wait to dive into a Northern Europe setting and transport myself mentally back to the fjords, mountains, cities, and all around gorgeous scenery. My husband and I honeymooned (almost 8 years ago!) in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Russia, and Estonia over the course of seventeen days and it was an amazing whirlwind. We're hoping to do a much smaller version of that trip for our ten year anniversary now that we have four kids that need attending to stateside. If you are in the US, I hope you are enjoying your long weekend (if you have one). It's a chilly 5 degrees Fahrenheit here, so even though we have ten inches of beautiful snow, we will be staying in the house today. My agenda is beta-reading some fiction and non-fiction, finishing the first chapter of Only You, and enjoying my husband home for the day watching the children so I can do all of these things. Happy Monday! Love always, Lucy
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