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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Tick... Tick... Tick...

I like what I'm writing, but for some reason it's literally taking ten times as long to write each scene as the last book did.

I know some books are "gimme" books and some books are Not, but jeez.

At this rate...

6 comments--Add your own!!:

Courtney Milan said...

I am having the same problem with my Book 2. I think I am going to render my forehead permanently flat from banging it against yonder brick wall.

Good luck to you, too. ;)

Darcy Burke said...

Squee for the new laptop! And squee for writing! Even if it involves the eveeel Delete key. I so hear you about this book being hard. What Courtney said.

AngryMan said...

You can do it!!!

Lauren said...

My writing always takes forever. The good part is that you are making progress! That's a very good thing!

Bill Clark said...

I guess I'm one of those blessed with the "gimme" books, since I now have four of them completed. But it's the tweaking that takes time, in my case, and even after I think it's tweaked to death and out in print, I keep finding typos and more emendations to make.

So, as our British friends say, what you lose on the swings you make up on the roundabouts. If your scenes are "tweak-free", you're that much further ahead of the game! :)

Erica Ridley said...

CM: We will be forehead-scab twins. It's so weird, b/c I really *like* this story now (first version, not so much) but it's soooo haaaaard...

D: Yay new laptop! Someday I've got to set aside a billion hours to transfer all my files and software to it so I can actually use the thing...

AM: Thank you!!!

L: You're so right. I have to keep looking at it as some progress is better than no progress!

BC: Is there such a thing as a tweak-free scene???