Contemplative, as ever
Sep. 23rd, 2006 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaAs always, today I'm feeling contemplative. I'm borrowing from another tradition, and I'm going to do some meditation and self-examination today.
"The main theme of the Rosh HaShana liturgy is that God is King, and He rewards good," says About.com of the holiday. This is just my kind of thinking. About.com also says that people repent and get their slates clean of old sins and old vows today. Sounds like a plan.
I'll add to it by doing a bit of analysis as to why some of my work isn't receiving the kind of reception I'd like. I think the FastDraft books that I'm working on--as it turns out, I'm doing two: the Ranch Romance, and the second Jacquidon mystery that I already had partially planned out--are coming along well, but they're going to need a lot of editing. That's okay, according to FastDraft members. Neither of these books opens with a wake-up or early morning scene. Neither of the books has a scene of the character sitting at home discussing something with another character (at least not so far). This may be a promising development.
I ended up working on both because I had a heck of an epiphany about how I could techie-up and ramp up the crime and clues in the second mystery, and I couldn't *NOT* work up those scenes. I'm hoping that because the murder happens within the first twenty pages and happens on-scene, this one is less problematic to sell.
But anyhow, time to go off and drink a protein shake (and sneak in some broccoli, too--vitamin C) and contemplate some more.
"The main theme of the Rosh HaShana liturgy is that God is King, and He rewards good," says About.com of the holiday. This is just my kind of thinking. About.com also says that people repent and get their slates clean of old sins and old vows today. Sounds like a plan.
I'll add to it by doing a bit of analysis as to why some of my work isn't receiving the kind of reception I'd like. I think the FastDraft books that I'm working on--as it turns out, I'm doing two: the Ranch Romance, and the second Jacquidon mystery that I already had partially planned out--are coming along well, but they're going to need a lot of editing. That's okay, according to FastDraft members. Neither of these books opens with a wake-up or early morning scene. Neither of the books has a scene of the character sitting at home discussing something with another character (at least not so far). This may be a promising development.
I ended up working on both because I had a heck of an epiphany about how I could techie-up and ramp up the crime and clues in the second mystery, and I couldn't *NOT* work up those scenes. I'm hoping that because the murder happens within the first twenty pages and happens on-scene, this one is less problematic to sell.
But anyhow, time to go off and drink a protein shake (and sneak in some broccoli, too--vitamin C) and contemplate some more.
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Date: 2006-09-24 06:55 pm (UTC)If you'd like me to take a look - with the proviso that a) I'm unpublished and b) it'll only be a quick look - send me rtf files to the address in my user profile. Sometimes a new pair of eyes helps.