Well, I finally finsihed the WIP last week, and I let it ‘set’ for a few days, and I’ve gone over all the grammar and little details, so it’s ready to submit. Why haven’t I sent it in then? It just seems to be missing something. Cece has read the whole thing, and she thinks I need to make the fight bigger, (which I did.) Sylvia’s rest most of it and she says it’s good. Steph gave it a final read over for me, and pointed out an area where my H should be more pissed off, and I can’t believe none of us caught it, because she’s so right!
Yet, I still feel something is missing. The characters are good, the sex is hot, (and pretty plentiful) the emotions are there…but it’s missing something. Then I had an epiphany at work tonite, after bouncing all this all off one of my friends. (She’s such a great listener!) I came up with a great way to give it some ACTION. A Middle to the story. Just what I think is missing. The thing that can make this good story into a GREAT story. But I have to rewrite at least 50 pages. 🙁
Keep in mind this is only 110 page novella, so 50 pages is almost half!! I know I can sell it the way it is. It IS good. But it could be so much better. But it means putting off WILLING even longer. Grrrr… What should I do?
I know, I know. Suck it up. Tell the GREAT story. After all, you never know who might read it and decide they want to offer me a multi-book contract with a 5 figure advance. :hehe:
Hugs, Sasha. But do the extra work. You’ll regret it later if you don’t.
Sasha, I just had something similar happen with my current WIP. I added one measly line. Because of that I’m going to have to rewrite a fairly large scene to acknowledge that one change. 🙁 This doesn’t count all the rewriting I’ll have to do after I finish adding all my worldbuilding. Grr…
Same here! Just doing a read-through of a "final draft" of a novella yesterday and realised it needed another chapter. Groan. It had to be done though. I’ve regretted ignoring these gut feelings in the past.. 😉
Sounds like fun!! Enjoy this. You have the time to write a GREAT story. I wish I had that. Once deadlines come around you’ll long for the days when you had the freedom to take your time. Live it up. It’s wonderful. 😀
Geeze, and I fret over writing a blog entry!
I say that it will bug you if you don’t do the best with it that you know you can do. It will niggle and annoy you until you fix it right, or at least try it and see. It may not fit right and you could end up with going back to what you had, and that will be annoying, but you will know you gave it your best.
At least, that is what I would have to do!
I’m going to do it. I’m goign to rewrite the whole last half. I knwo it will be better… and I have SUZANNE to thank for it. This ideas been int he back of my mind since you read the start for me. It just never clicked until yesterday.
Thanks everyone. I promise..it’ll be worth it.!!
Do the rewrite. I knew when I sent in FSB to HQN, it needed work, but thought it had a good chance *as is*. It’s so much better now. And in fact, it could still use an overhaul–again my fault because I had two options for revising, and I took the easier route. Now I see the harder revisions would have made the ms even better. It sux, and it’s work, but it’s worth it. Send your best out there every single time!
so I was a little late on the draw. gg. Glad you decided to go for it! Suzanne rules!
The comments are still apreciated, Jaq!
Thanks!
Go for it! I just rewrote a novella three times. Painful, but necessary.
You’ve got to go with your gut – those instincts will steer you right every time.
sending good rewrite vibes to you 🙂
Are you SURE it needs done or are you stalling??? :confused: