Started again last night on the latest revision of House of Cuts, with new protagonist Hilary Broom replacing Amy Kovar, who now resides in her own novel.
Seems never ending this novel polishing process!
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, October 25, 2010
knife in the heart
At the Moke Hill novel workshop, Lucy and Toni convinced me of what Verna had noted last spring. I have two novels in House of Cuts, not one. For years I've been trying to weave these two stories together and even though I got it to work for me, it didn't for most readers, except darling sister Jacki. Goes to show the best critics may not be your family!
I guess this is the jarring time you hear about when you have to toss out that first awful novel and start the next one. So, I'm going through all 19 chapters and slicing out the parts that belong to a literary novel, Amy's Mother for lack of a better title for now.
Then rewriting House of Cuts as a suspense thriller with edges of wacky humor.
A couple lines from a Mary Mackey poem pop into my mind, not sure of the punctuation, sorry:
Yikes and double yikes!!!!! Sigh, sit in the chair, and just keep going. Driven by some kind of mystery.
I guess this is the jarring time you hear about when you have to toss out that first awful novel and start the next one. So, I'm going through all 19 chapters and slicing out the parts that belong to a literary novel, Amy's Mother for lack of a better title for now.
Then rewriting House of Cuts as a suspense thriller with edges of wacky humor.
A couple lines from a Mary Mackey poem pop into my mind, not sure of the punctuation, sorry:
Out of the one, two
Out of the still point, the multitude
Yikes and double yikes!!!!! Sigh, sit in the chair, and just keep going. Driven by some kind of mystery.
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