bookkeeping

[truepenny]

The Virtu, Chapter 14: 404 words

Being a writer is beating your head against the wall until the wall falls down.

Comments

[oracne.livejournal.com]

404 is a good day's work, especially on a hard part.

How many chapters are there?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Um, it looks like it's going to be 16. But 15 and 16 will only need roll-over editing from 14. It's 14 that's the bitchkitty.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

That's no so bad, then.

I bet it will come together all of a sudden, after much painful slogging.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

The wall *will* fall down.

(My husband: "Are you telling her she's hard-headed?")

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Well, you wouldn't be telling me anything I didn't know. *g*

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

And then trying to make sense of the pieces.

(PS I am reading Melusine. Good book!)

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

(PS I am reading Melusine. Good book!)

Yes, what she said--I do say more here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/hominysnark/52952.html?nc=16), although it's mostly gush and squee.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Um. You do know that gush and squee are not offensive to writers, right?

Thank you v. much!

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

Yah, but I do try to wedge a wee bit of content in with the gush and squee.

You're v. welcome, and I expect The Virtu will produce more G&S. :D

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That's when the light flows in.

It sounds corny, but that's what happens to me. I always compare these bad, flowing like treacle in January stretches to standing in a hallway with no doors, windows, or any sort of outlet, trying to find my way out. All of a sudden, the walls blow out and I'm surrounded by airy, sunny landscape. It's that sudden.

Feels great. Unfortunately, the getting-there part's a stone bitch.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oof. Yes.

You describe that very well (she says commiseratingly).

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I experience it several times over the course of a book.

It's right up there with licking frozen doorknobs.

[larryhammer]

Oh, no wonder -- I've been doing it wrong. I thought it was beating the wall against my head until it falls down.

---L.

[tinyfroglet.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Sometimes it feels like my skull will crack long before any walls come down...

[heathwitch.livejournal.com]

You mean the wall is supposed to be so hard to break? Damn. :p