The whiny story of slogging through writing my first novel.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

She's Back!

Vacation was nice. Saw a lot of bears, one of them amazingly close. Didn't get to write much, because it's impossible to write while negotiating the narrow Cades Cove road, dodging stupid fucking tourists and looking for bears (of which I spotted several - one of them a half mile away!). Then when we were stopped I was too busy to pull out the notebook I had with me.

But, I thought a lot about Kinsey and Parker. They were too nebulous, as complete people, in my head when I started writing the book. That would be the number one lesson I think I've learned - that you really need a lot more preparation than I gave to the project before beginning to write.

2 comments:

C. Margery Kempe said...

Glad you're back -- missed you! Missed Kelsey and Parker, too. Now that the term is over maybe you'll have a little more time to slip away and write.

Chuckie58 said...

I will have more time to write, and I very much hope that what I write makes more sense.