There are always seeds rattling around in my pocket. Little specks of
storylines I like to plant in the soil of a manuscript’s early chapters.
This is all well and good… when you’re actually writing Chapter One.
However, when the cogs of progress have churned sufficiently to crank
the novel into edits, this seed-laying mania is a bit not good.
Case in point: As I’ve reported this week, I have decided to jumpstart
the editing of The Hushing
Days by abandoning the corrections of Chapter Seven
and turning my eraser and white-out to the always challenging Chapter One.
So, while I’m editing away at the chapter, adding this and that while
marking out a whole bunch of other, I keep finding myself reaching for the seeds
in my pocket…
Bad, bad author!
The editing process is not the time to add tangents, side roads or
off-shoots.
Plant one seed in Chapter One and you’ll be tending it the whole novel
long.
This is not the time, girl!
Or so I keep chiding myself every time I stick another storyline into
the ground.
*sighs*
Maybe the 2050 book market will be hungry for a 300K The Hushing Days?
One can only hope.
Until tomorrow…
Chloe
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