Wednesday
Aug192009
Arianna, or, the Comeback Kid
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 04:28PM
Arianna really doesn't fight fair. Unlike with my first two novels (Gabryela, which I worked diligently on throughout at a fairly even pace) and Tarian (also known as DIARY OF A TEENAGE MURDERESS) which started slow and then sunk thick, dark hooks into my spine and violently forced me to finish writing it (okay, that's a lie, I just got obsessed with it), Arianna tends to flow like the ocean--wave, lull, wave, lull, wave.
Yet some how, the waves continue to surprise me. I wrote like 3000 words after midnight last night, and today I feel a lull again. Which is probably good because I have a lot of work to do this week (though, admittedly, not quite as much as last week since my deadline'd work is in). I feel like the momentum is building though, and I'm hoping for a massive, tsunami-style tidal wave to break open this book. I'm about at the halfway point now, so maybe it will be a fast ride from here; maybe not, who knows.
Also, everyone I know should be checking out Jenna Paone on Myspace; I went to high school with her and just heard her music yesterday for the first time since a high school production of Godspell and I'm ASTOUNDED! She's so talented. We all know I get obsessed easily, but she has some really good music on there. Check out "Smoke"!
Yet some how, the waves continue to surprise me. I wrote like 3000 words after midnight last night, and today I feel a lull again. Which is probably good because I have a lot of work to do this week (though, admittedly, not quite as much as last week since my deadline'd work is in). I feel like the momentum is building though, and I'm hoping for a massive, tsunami-style tidal wave to break open this book. I'm about at the halfway point now, so maybe it will be a fast ride from here; maybe not, who knows.
Also, everyone I know should be checking out Jenna Paone on Myspace; I went to high school with her and just heard her music yesterday for the first time since a high school production of Godspell and I'm ASTOUNDED! She's so talented. We all know I get obsessed easily, but she has some really good music on there. Check out "Smoke"!
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