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Aug. 19th, 2004 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrWords: 711
Reason for stopping: It's a half hour past my bedtime.
Mood: Um. Words. Actual words. That sort of follow one after the other. Wow. Who knew?
Notes: I still don't know what the hell I'm doing with this book. I mean, I have chunks of the plot, but am still suspicious that they will not add up to something that achieves its own activation energy. I think it's that this is the first book I've attempted to do with this write - all - over - the - book - and - piece - it - together - afterwards method, rather than going beginning to end. I don't yet trust the process. And it's been such a long time since I've written a book. And I've sort of kind of thought of an ending, but haven't yet decided whether it's too stupid for words. This makes me twitchy. So: glad that I got words out tonight, but even though Lois has told me it's a book, I still don't quite believe it yet.
Reason for stopping: It's a half hour past my bedtime.
Mood: Um. Words. Actual words. That sort of follow one after the other. Wow. Who knew?
Notes: I still don't know what the hell I'm doing with this book. I mean, I have chunks of the plot, but am still suspicious that they will not add up to something that achieves its own activation energy. I think it's that this is the first book I've attempted to do with this write - all - over - the - book - and - piece - it - together - afterwards method, rather than going beginning to end. I don't yet trust the process. And it's been such a long time since I've written a book. And I've sort of kind of thought of an ending, but haven't yet decided whether it's too stupid for words. This makes me twitchy. So: glad that I got words out tonight, but even though Lois has told me it's a book, I still don't quite believe it yet.
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they call it a draft because it is full of holes
Date: 2004-08-19 10:54 pm (UTC)You don't have to get it right the first time, in any case. It just has to be done. It can be right later.
Writing a book isn't like framing a ship; if it's out of true, you can go back and cut a little bit back on, or change the lie of the whole thing easy as shaking out a sheet.
*g*
It's more like quilting or knitting: if you bitch it up totally, you can take it to pieces and start over and make it better. But the chances are you won't bitch it up as badly as you fear.
It's just a book, after all, and you're bigger than it is. It's just *one* book, and you are books without limit. It doesn't stand a chance.
Re: they call it a draft because it is full of holes
Date: 2004-08-20 05:04 am (UTC)But you don't get anywhere until you put clay on the wheel.
Re: they call it a draft because it is full of holes
Date: 2004-08-20 07:40 am (UTC)ooo. shiny.
Re: they call it a draft because it is full of holes
Date: 2004-08-20 07:45 am (UTC)