I saw nothing but calm seas ahead of me.
I should've known something was about to happen when I heard the theme from Jaws begin to rumble in the air around me.
Has that ever happened to you? A shark attack out of the blue?
What happened was I got a couple of critiques back from my writing partners.
Both of them were all over my character motivations and responses to danger. They were relentless. In the spirit of the season, I tried picturing them (two gorgeous blondes) as wicked hags with warts on their noses.
How could they? And especially . . . How could they be so right???
In other words, the writing wasn't so bad, but the storyline, at this particular point, stinks. Like that shark bait . . . what's it called? Chum?
Aaargh!
I hate it when I'm thinking I don't have to think so much and then someone forces the issue.
But I showed them. Well, I'm gonna show them. I figured it out.
Now to write it.
CR: Green by Ted Dekker
It's all better with friends.
Oy, those trusty readers, they always prove correct! See, Peg, you were having your own PFD moment, only yours was a Perfect Work In Progress moment :) Lucky you, at least you didn't have fall from the grace of believing you had 400 perfect pages, there was only so far to go...
ReplyDelete400 pages stand a lot higher than a few scenes, that's for sure. It would be easier to break something from that height. That's where bounce-ability comes in.
ReplyDeleteI think I may be broken, at least in places ;)
ReplyDeleteYou'll heal. You are woman. You are writer. You are strong.
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