July 11, 2002
HOORAY!
I finished my first read through tonight! I have a pile of notes and several ideas in my head, all ready to be assimilated into a second draft. I have a lot of questions still, knowing where the problems are is only the first step to fixing them, after all. Some of my issues have me a little stumped. Overall, I think there's a lot of good stuff in this novel, but there's also a lot of crap, and a lot of weakness. Still, not bad for a first draft of a first novel, written entirely off the cuff.
I'm wondering how to start the second draft. I'm debating trying to construct an outline that incorporates the new subplot ideas, then start the rewrite from there. That sounds kinda daunting right now though. Feh.
Get me, I'm a minion!
Yes, it's true, I'm officially one of Shakespeare's Minions. Really, deep down, I always have been. Still, the validation is nice.
I have been working, despite the lack of posting and the low word count off to the left there. I've got about four chapters of The Host left to read through and make notes on. The plan is to wrap that up tonight at Write Club. I have a ton of notes so far, of things to change, things to fix, things to add -- I've got two subplots and several scenes for existing subplots that need to be mixed in for the second draft. I think I have my work cut out for me, but I also think I'm still well on track to have a decent second draft by September -- at which point I start looking for an agent, oh my.
In other news, "All the Lonely People" came back to me from Weird Tales after about six weeks, along with a rather rude note. At least it wasn't a form, right? I've been bad though, I haven't sent either that or "Midsummer" back out yet, mostly because I've been too lazy to go buy postage. "Lonely People" needs some serious tweaking though.
