I’ve almost finished the third draft of MAGIC’S FOOL. And I just now decided on a fairly major plot revision.
This draft was supposed to concentrate on improving descriptons, but as I near the end (where most things have already been fairly well described), I started wondering about a particular plot element. It had worked just fine in the original version, before the rewrite. But now I’m targeting a different audience and I’m not at all sure it works for the new market.
Fortunately, I think I see a pretty good solution. One that will, fortunately, actually help to solve a time-line issue that bothered me even in the original version. I think I’ll like this version even better.
Now, I was planning what I was going to work on after I finish this draft: revision notes to BLOOD IS THICKER based on reader input, starting to work on the query for SEVEN STARS, working on that neglected short story I’ve barely started. I still need to do all those things, but I guess they’re going to be delayed a bit.
My readers get MAGIC’S FOOL in March. I’ll need to have it ready for them.
My current project “The Last Days of Clayton Potter” started out as a serious apocalyptic novel about an Army Ranger on his own after WW3, but after three revisions is a parody of all things end times. A good book, something you are really into, will go through several shapes before it is where you feel it will be readable by a wide audience. Hang in there, keep at it, and I wish you the best of luck.
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Thanks. This feels a little late in the process for this kind of epiphany. But when a change just feels right, you’ve got to go with it.
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I’m learning that it’s never too late for epiphany or shifting sands under your feet. I realized I need to go through my current draft of Dark Mirror and do some serious thinking about how I present things, not to mention how I write about them. But it’s all good, part of growth and all that, right?
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Right. If it feels right and you think it strengthens the story, you’ve just got to go with it.
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Exactly. And sometimes, you don’t know how much it helped until you at least mentally explore it. Those are almost the best, the surprise helps.
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True. And I love surprises in my writing. Keeps me on my toes.
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