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Progress on the book
Mar. 25th, 2003 08:23 amI wrote 530 words in today's hour session. Worked up a rough outline yesterday.
(I had put the outline here, but a couple of hours later I took it down. Decided I might tinker with it further, and for now it feels right to keep it private).
Feeling a little troubled, and simultaneously amused with myself for being fretful. Six months ago, I would have been ecstatic to have a rough outline of a real book and several scenes written, and ideas for more and more welling up every day. Yet I look at the outline and feel dissatisfied. Reasons for dissatisfaction: I don't quite have a handle on either Jack or Solveig's voice yet. Well, I do, but they seem . . . bland to me. How to sharpen the focus? Am hesitating whether to tell the story from entirely Solveig's P-O-V. Or should I include some of Jack's, so I can include scenes between him and Rolf? Would that be too much spoiling? Also, I look at the outline, and I think is that all? I still have the feeling that there's something missing. I don't know if it's plot. Part of it is a deeper understanding of the magic of the book, other than the fact that it wells up from what Minnesota is.
Theme is shaping up in my mind a bit more reassuringly. Cycle of life (maiden-mother-crone), accepting the cycle rather than fighting it, permanence v. impermanence, heart of flesh v. heart of stone, coldness v. warmth.
Gotta dash to work.
Cheers,
Peg
(I had put the outline here, but a couple of hours later I took it down. Decided I might tinker with it further, and for now it feels right to keep it private).
Feeling a little troubled, and simultaneously amused with myself for being fretful. Six months ago, I would have been ecstatic to have a rough outline of a real book and several scenes written, and ideas for more and more welling up every day. Yet I look at the outline and feel dissatisfied. Reasons for dissatisfaction: I don't quite have a handle on either Jack or Solveig's voice yet. Well, I do, but they seem . . . bland to me. How to sharpen the focus? Am hesitating whether to tell the story from entirely Solveig's P-O-V. Or should I include some of Jack's, so I can include scenes between him and Rolf? Would that be too much spoiling? Also, I look at the outline, and I think is that all? I still have the feeling that there's something missing. I don't know if it's plot. Part of it is a deeper understanding of the magic of the book, other than the fact that it wells up from what Minnesota is.
Theme is shaping up in my mind a bit more reassuringly. Cycle of life (maiden-mother-crone), accepting the cycle rather than fighting it, permanence v. impermanence, heart of flesh v. heart of stone, coldness v. warmth.
Gotta dash to work.
Cheers,
Peg