writers' quicksand
Aug. 18th, 2007 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxMy writerbrain itches. I'm horribly stuck. It would have to be the chapter that finally shows Kara what's going on. I was looking forward to writing that chapter for weeks.
I'm stuck.
How do you write the dialogue between gods?
Three cups of coffee, and I won't be sleeping any time soon.
I need to write this. Where is it?
Words trapped in the dark.
Months ago, Mom asked me to mail her the first few chapters, so she could show it to a writer friend who wanted to see how I was doing. I let Mom read the chapters, although I'd forgotten that my mother and I have slightly different reading preferences. Mom said -- and this still sticks with me -- that those first three chapters have more of a Young Adult feel than the feel of a book written by an adult. In my defense, I said, those chapters had in fact been written by a 20-year-old Young Adult. They were not fully edited.
I think I'm still afraid.
I just want to write. It's not YA to me. I just want it finished. I can't see the end of the road from here, but I'm still more than halfway there.
Dear beta-readers: I may need some more beta-reading.
I'm stuck.
How do you write the dialogue between gods?
Three cups of coffee, and I won't be sleeping any time soon.
I need to write this. Where is it?
Words trapped in the dark.
Months ago, Mom asked me to mail her the first few chapters, so she could show it to a writer friend who wanted to see how I was doing. I let Mom read the chapters, although I'd forgotten that my mother and I have slightly different reading preferences. Mom said -- and this still sticks with me -- that those first three chapters have more of a Young Adult feel than the feel of a book written by an adult. In my defense, I said, those chapters had in fact been written by a 20-year-old Young Adult. They were not fully edited.
I think I'm still afraid.
I just want to write. It's not YA to me. I just want it finished. I can't see the end of the road from here, but I'm still more than halfway there.
Dear beta-readers: I may need some more beta-reading.
