Generating words has never been a problem. Perhaps the "problem" is that this particular manuscript has already been held by a publisher for a period of time before rejection -- meaning that its well past the insulated pupae stage and more like a winged thing uncomfortably turning around inside a chrysalis. What I have, right now, is 9K words "on deck" and 70+K words in another file waiting to be filtered and attached as I move through with my fine comb. The book was nonfiction for so long that I have to remind myself where I now have liberties . . .like learning the way to key a sticky lock and suddenly having the lock changed. I've also split the narrator into two people. One is a third-person voice and the other a first-person. The implication is that they are the same person. A reader can choose why such a division exists, but each carries a very different voice.
This is my last week working all 7 days at some job or the other. It's also the first week when my New Zealand trip feels 'real'so I get distracted by trying to do lots of little things to prepare for leaving the country.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
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