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November Writing and December Plans
Nov. 30th, 2021 08:40 amSleeping Beauty continues to kick my ass, so after much gnashing of teeth I set it aside and have taken out again the m/m Depression-era tramps story that I set aside last December, because at the time it was causing much gnashing of teeth.
Goodness knows what changed in the meantime, because I surely haven’t done much research on that topic since, but now the book and I are getting on like a house on fire. I had about 30,000 words of old draft, and since restarting it on November 23 I'm closing in on 50,000. I expect it will be between sixty and seventy thousand in the end.
I am, rather puzzlingly, writing it more or less backwards, starting at the end and working back toward the beginning. There are enough scenes of old draft (what is missing is the material that links them) so serve as blazes along the way.
I’ve gotten to the part where James gets beaten up by a railroad bull and Timothy tenderly cares for him in the cold dark rain. They end up spending the night at the YMCA hotel, where the gay desk clerk takes one look at them and concludes (erroneously but understandably) that James got beaten up protecting Timothy from homophobic toughs.
Goodness knows what changed in the meantime, because I surely haven’t done much research on that topic since, but now the book and I are getting on like a house on fire. I had about 30,000 words of old draft, and since restarting it on November 23 I'm closing in on 50,000. I expect it will be between sixty and seventy thousand in the end.
I am, rather puzzlingly, writing it more or less backwards, starting at the end and working back toward the beginning. There are enough scenes of old draft (what is missing is the material that links them) so serve as blazes along the way.
I’ve gotten to the part where James gets beaten up by a railroad bull and Timothy tenderly cares for him in the cold dark rain. They end up spending the night at the YMCA hotel, where the gay desk clerk takes one look at them and concludes (erroneously but understandably) that James got beaten up protecting Timothy from homophobic toughs.
