“Stream” sounds good. We’ll go with that. From my writing journal right after my friend pointed out the structural issues with my novels:
So Bly says I need to get more of Taro’s issues with his life in there early. He should know what he wants (she thinks) and that would make it clear from the beginning that the book is about his coming of age. And I think that could work. Then bring Eve to the hotel, so all the fighting can go on nearly at nonce, keep convo with Eve and maybe with Rafe but it’s not necessary…
But how to fix Eve? Oh, hell, I don’t even care about that right now. Get some practice at other stuff.
Okay. I need some sort of plan here. And I need to work out housework and Hope work and other stuff times. I need my control journal out here.
Hell with it, I don’t like my control journal. So I need an alternative. What might work? Just a hand-written routine? I like that. With other stuff…hmm.
Need a morning routine. No, I don’t. I’ve got mornings down all right. I need “stuff to do before going on computer” and “stuff to do before getting back on computer.” That seems reasonable.
I don’t want to be distracted by that right now, though. I want to think about fixing my writing.
I didn’t do it in Flame. But I’ve done it in every single book in Eve’s universe. Why is that?
Is it the serial format that works so well for me? Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could just make my living writing serials and posting them?
Yeah, dreaming. So. What I need to do. Fix Taro. Make it about his life, not just college, all along.
Oh hells I’m so sick of accomplishing nothing. I should at least blog my (no idea, that’s where I stopped writing. Next paragraph: )
Don’t have mom turn up at Kari’s. I could cut a LOT between Tolberra and Kari’s.
Ponder, ponder…
My plans crumble, ordination is my fate.
Re-writes unending loom like sequoias
while Real Life cackles glee and muses
jiggle the eight ball, seeking a better way.Joss and Zeke are attacked. Zeke has Epiphany watching Joss. Next day to see Paige of and Zeke sends Joss too.
So if Eve book goes nearly straight from aftermath of getting Donte (I will not skip that) to Ben’s POV as Eve comes back to the ship with Taro…
And on and on, like that. Next paragraph is about fixing Rafe, then Donte, then worries about something else, then I have to go to bed…
Hey, be glad it’s this notebook. Otherwise I’d be scanning in my scribbled penguin, or the bandito snowman with crossed bandoliers and pistols on his “hips.”