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Post by moonmomma on Apr 24, 2010 0:28:41 GMT -5
... start drafting another novel while I'm revising "Empty God"? I'm afraid working on two things at once might tax my poor feeble little attention span to the breaking point. On the other hand, the Urdaisunia folks are getting extremely annoyed with me and I'm afraid they might just decide to go away if I don't start writing their story soon.
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Post by claregurl on Apr 25, 2010 21:21:17 GMT -5
That is a problem. In my opinion, it all depends on how much you think you can handle. You don't want the two ideas fighting with each other in your mind, but you also don't want to risk forgeting them. I've faced this problem many times, and this is what i usually do: I keep "Plot Journals" for each story. If I ever get an idea that I want to right down or put into my story, i just write it in there. That way, I'm not getting confused with both at one moment, trying to put filler in so I can get to where I want to write down. I can just keep working on what I decide to give my time to without forgeting about my other projects.
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Post by wildbreeze on Apr 27, 2010 22:50:29 GMT -5
Here's an idea: if you really don't want to start writing the other book and risk losing your mind, just write basic thoughts in a journal or something. Like, sketch the plot in a book, and the basic story. Then when you've finished with "Empty God", you can go back and make the story from your notes.  |
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Post by moonmomma on Apr 30, 2010 11:38:01 GMT -5
Well, I've decided to go ahead and try this. The thing is, I have a lot of "Urdaisunia" (still haven't come up with a really good title, I posted part of it under a fairly lame title that no longer applies to the story) already written. I wrote a lot of it about 18 years ago and then abandoned it because I was afraid it wouldn't sell. (This was before I made the decision to not try to publish.) So it has migrated from text files written on a DOS computer (yes, from before there was Windows) and saved on 5" floppy disks, to 3" floppy disks, to my current computer. I also have a large stack of printouts printed on an old dot-matrix printer. Anyway, I've got a big chunk of it already written, so what I'm doing is copying-and-pasting stuff I already have, and writing new scenes to fill in what's missing and to bring everything into alignment with the different underlying premise for the plot that I thought of. Hopefully I'll end up with a more or less complete draft that I can print and start beating into shape. If I had to write the whole thing from scratch I would just be making notes and waiting till I finish my other project.
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