The Novel WIP

[alanajoli]

So, though I was trying the write a sentence a day technique, what I ended up writing didn't feel right to me. The character didn't have the voice I remembered her having when I first "met" her, and so I scratched that beginning and decided to start over. After talking about a number of writing exercises (which helped me get some perspective), I thought I had some direction, a new way to go.

What I didn't expect was a secondary character, who I thought might someday star in her own book, to be the voice that came out most clearly. And once I'd written a couple of hand written pages from her perspective, I understood Jesse's voice much more clearly. Of course, now I have to rethink what the story is all about, because that second narrator changes a lot about the telling. It could be she's just the scaffolding I needed to get started, but I suspect that she might be a more active part in this story than I'd originally thought.

Edit: I forgot the original topic I was going to post today! I want to officially welcome sartorias's new book, The King's Shield into the world, and welcome the multi-parented anthology The Dimension Next Door onto the shelves as well. Happy book birthdays!

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

*g*

Wishing you clear sailing on the writing front...

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

That's happened twice with me in two different books - a secondary character threatening to take over and definitely wanting their own novel/novella/story. :)

I'm a bit behind on emails due to being stuck in Revision Hell, but I've just been checking out your previous guest blogs... Wow! Great stuff here. I love Tiffany Trent - nice to see her here. And also Carrie Vaughan's post is interesting.