![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
June Writing and July Goals
Jul. 1st, 2022 07:19 pmAs aforementioned I have finished a draft of Sleeping Beauty, which I am TRYING to allow to rest although, unhelpfully, I keep thinking about it and coming up with new ideas that might? perhaps?? make it better??? Currently contemplating whether Russell ought to have at least a few POV chapters.
HOWEVER I know that what would REALLY make the book better right now is to let it rest for a while, so I can come back to it with fresh eyes. Therefore I am trying to sink my teeth into another project. Possibilities include:
1. Chris and Josh, in which a vampire snack bar attendant falls in love with a vampire snack. (You may recognize this as an iteration of one of the novels I wanted to inter in this post. In fact that post was singularly unsuccessful at laying books to rest: the 1910s college girls Goblin Market also refused to die, as did Fritzi and Magdalena.)
2. Sage, the YA novel, although it has occurred to me that extending the enemies-to-friends plot to have a -to-lovers component is going to be rather more work than I initially realized. I sort of envisioned banging it off in a week as when I revised The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball but TTPB was basically done, whereas Sage would be getting not just a new subplot but probably a sub-subplot about coming out, as well.
3. Kip and Alec, the tale of two men who feel unworthy of love: one because he was desperately unpopular at school, and the other because he lost half his face in the Great War as a result of a tragic wound as a fighter pilot. (Thus, any Biggles-related purchases henceforward are RESEARCH).
HOWEVER I know that what would REALLY make the book better right now is to let it rest for a while, so I can come back to it with fresh eyes. Therefore I am trying to sink my teeth into another project. Possibilities include:
1. Chris and Josh, in which a vampire snack bar attendant falls in love with a vampire snack. (You may recognize this as an iteration of one of the novels I wanted to inter in this post. In fact that post was singularly unsuccessful at laying books to rest: the 1910s college girls Goblin Market also refused to die, as did Fritzi and Magdalena.)
2. Sage, the YA novel, although it has occurred to me that extending the enemies-to-friends plot to have a -to-lovers component is going to be rather more work than I initially realized. I sort of envisioned banging it off in a week as when I revised The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball but TTPB was basically done, whereas Sage would be getting not just a new subplot but probably a sub-subplot about coming out, as well.
3. Kip and Alec, the tale of two men who feel unworthy of love: one because he was desperately unpopular at school, and the other because he lost half his face in the Great War as a result of a tragic wound as a fighter pilot. (Thus, any Biggles-related purchases henceforward are RESEARCH).
