The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Much Better

A quiet day, the furniture is here so those morons can't show up. The dance auditions are today, so there are 32 young people trying to get into the Dance major here. All the other secretaries are off on a retreat today, doing the girly thing. It's a standing joke here that I will ALWAYS be available to cover the office on this day. ;-)

Yesterday I rushed to the end of chapter eight, which will be improved on the re-write, but I wanted to keep with Kate's strategy of "get 'er dun". Then I sent it to her and ran out the door. Today I will work on chapter nine, in which Kelsey and Parker, in their first full day of End Of The World will explore that world a little more. It's basically going to be a series of vignettes, and Kelsey is going to suffer the emotional shock of finding out there's a good chance she's going to die of zombie infection anyway. It changes her perspective, to say the least.

And I'm feeling the urge to go back and re-read what I've written again, but I don't know if I need to. We'll see. I haven't decided if I'm losing sight of the whole picture or not.

1 comment:

C. Margery Kempe said...

Don't you ever try to equate me with Larry the Cable Guy, missy! Jeez!

I'd suggest avoiding the re-read at this point. It can be distracting to say the least. If you need, keep thumbnails for your revised outline so you know the plot points. If you must go back, scan -- don't sit and read it.