It's Happening!

I am soooooo thrilled.

I got serious about working through the novel revision for Storm Front using my notes from the Novel Revision Retreat along with the new book out that summarizes everything more neatly than my notes.

I ignored the groaning Resister that was telling me it was way, way too much work to fill in the big holes and have what I needed to really do the preliminary overview of the novel (my 2005 NaNo manuscript). I started stewing on what the story is about at its core, where it needs tension and how to get it in there, and voila! The pieces started coming in from everywhere--at the oddest times. I know my son thinks I'm developing a nervous twitch. "Oh!" followed by a scramble for something to write with and on during a period of total oblivion to everything and everyone around me. I think he asked me for a new car during the last episode.

I am so excited about this manuscript now. I think about it while I do dishes, while I'm scrubbing stains out of clothes, and often when I'm half awake/half asleep. The thoughts are like popcorn. They started slowly at first, but now the temperature is just right and they are exploding like mad.

Now I need to be sure I do what Leonard Bishop advises in Dare to Be a Great Writer and show up daily for this thing--even if it is for only moments scattered throughout. It's easier to stay in the world that way, and not have to re-enter after losing the feeling to a period of stagnation. This will be difficult once dh is back home, but I am psyched. I am finally past the preliminary inventory of the novel and am ready to move on to the deeper items like characterization and imagery.

I do love editing. I'm crazy, I know, but I love putting in the intricacies that--if I'm lucky--the reader will enjoy but never notice.