May Writing and June Goals
May. 31st, 2022 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerStill creeping forward in Sleeping Beauty. I’m at 105,000 words now, with God knows how many left to write. It’s going to be ludicrously long… if it ever ends…
I took a little break to work on revisions of Sage, a YA novel that has been living on my hard drive (in various states of completion) since 2011. I love these girls so much and I want to get them out in the world and it occurred to me that way more people would read it if I made Sage’s enemies-to-friends subplot with her nemesis’s chief minion Angelee into a full-blown enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc.
I am a little sad to be tossing romance into the mix, as my Vision for the book was a YA novel about friendship rather than romance. However, the friendship story will remain the heart of the book, which is the important thing surely, and I think it will strengthen the book as a whole to make the queer subtext into text.
Anyway, after this brief sojourn in Sage-land, I returned to Sleeping Beauty, and the middle section which has been the bane of my existence… has abruptly disentangled itself? I performed a few ruthless cuts and suddenly things fell into place. If any of the cut material really HAS to be in there, I can always add it back in later.
I honestly think one of the difficulties with this book is that there are SO many interesting ways that Russell would find the 20th century discombobulating (“What the hell is basketball?”) that I keep wandering off on tangents that are really just distractions from the main point.
I took a little break to work on revisions of Sage, a YA novel that has been living on my hard drive (in various states of completion) since 2011. I love these girls so much and I want to get them out in the world and it occurred to me that way more people would read it if I made Sage’s enemies-to-friends subplot with her nemesis’s chief minion Angelee into a full-blown enemies-to-friends-to-lovers arc.
I am a little sad to be tossing romance into the mix, as my Vision for the book was a YA novel about friendship rather than romance. However, the friendship story will remain the heart of the book, which is the important thing surely, and I think it will strengthen the book as a whole to make the queer subtext into text.
Anyway, after this brief sojourn in Sage-land, I returned to Sleeping Beauty, and the middle section which has been the bane of my existence… has abruptly disentangled itself? I performed a few ruthless cuts and suddenly things fell into place. If any of the cut material really HAS to be in there, I can always add it back in later.
I honestly think one of the difficulties with this book is that there are SO many interesting ways that Russell would find the 20th century discombobulating (“What the hell is basketball?”) that I keep wandering off on tangents that are really just distractions from the main point.
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Date: 2022-05-31 10:22 pm (UTC)Yay!!!!!
And also yay, YA novel!
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Date: 2022-05-31 11:22 pm (UTC)I may keep the YA novel on the side to work on whenever I just Can't with Sleeping Beauty. Clearly switching projects helped knock a few things loose.