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lauraanne_gilmanSome people can sit down and write a book from start to finish, and end up satisfied. Not me. I have an outline (DNA?) that tells me what action will happen then, and I can sit down to put the skeleton together from that. But then I have to go back and add on the flesh and sinews and all the other gory details needed to keep that metaphor going. Sometimes it all works out, and the second pass ends with me going "it's aLIVE!" Hard Magic was like that.
Vineart 1? Not so much.
The great thing about writing [the actual act, that is] is that it keeps you humble. You get the flash of "oh, THAT'S why the first half of the book hasn't been making me happy" that makes you feel like a genius... but the other side of that is "duh, anyone with half a brain would have figured that out before you hit the last third of the book..."
Anyway, that's what happened to me lat night, just after I'd closed files for the night. What's great about this is that I not only know how to tweak the first third to do what is needed, but I can move forward with the last third thinking not "man, the ending is stronger than the beginning" but "the ending will give me the ability to make the beginning really kick ass."
I have updated my betas on the evolution, and enlisted them in the process. Hot water has been applied internally and externally, and we are onward into the fray....
Vineart 1? Not so much.
The great thing about writing [the actual act, that is] is that it keeps you humble. You get the flash of "oh, THAT'S why the first half of the book hasn't been making me happy" that makes you feel like a genius... but the other side of that is "duh, anyone with half a brain would have figured that out before you hit the last third of the book..."
Anyway, that's what happened to me lat night, just after I'd closed files for the night. What's great about this is that I not only know how to tweak the first third to do what is needed, but I can move forward with the last third thinking not "man, the ending is stronger than the beginning" but "the ending will give me the ability to make the beginning really kick ass."
I have updated my betas on the evolution, and enlisted them in the process. Hot water has been applied internally and externally, and we are onward into the fray....
