I have been working on my sci-fi like I said I would, just less than I had hoped. I did get to the point where I was ready to bridge the new scenes with the old stuff, whereupon I realized I didn’t “show” the correct stuff in some of the new scenes, and I even once showed them doing something that came later in the old stuff!
So now I have to do some major rewriting of a portion of the
new scenes. Thankfully not all of them. But the most annoying part of all this
is I didn’t show my hero’s emotions correctly in the new scenes. How could I
have forgotten what was going on in the part of the story I did keep?
Then there is the issue that my office has been closed for the last two
days. So today is my first day back at work this week. I’m having some financial
issues, and yet another check is going to be short. I can barely make ends meet
if I don’t miss any work.
On the bright side, I did go through my sci-fi manuscript, and I
have removed the portion that is actually the second book of the series to a
separate file. That does need some changes made, but I’ll work on it later.
Right now, I want to finish book one!
And I am so close. I swear I am.
Once I fix the errors I made in the new scenes, it will mostly
minor changes and simple editing. And believe me, major changes take way
longer than minor changes and simple fixes. The major stuff is always a
problem.
The worst part is I always seem to get to a point in the day
when no words continue to come. It’s like my brain shuts down after a certain
number of pages of writing. I’m lucky if I can manage ten pages a day, it's
usually only five, which isn’t a thing to be happening right before NANO starts.
You see, to keep up with NANO I will have to write between
six and seven pages a day. Shutting down around five pages isn’t going to cut
it.
It sometimes amazes me that I manage to finish NANO most
years. And it is even more amazing that in 2017 I managed to write over 90K
words in November. That is the year I started this sci-fi.
Yeah, we’re talking over 90,000 words in just one month. Which
is on par with the time I wrote an over 130K rough draft in just six weeks. (If
you are curious, that one was my story everyone couldn’t decide if was a paranormal romance, or sci-fi, and it turns out it's speculative fiction, who knew?)
In other words, I write more and faster when I am not
writing romance! I thought I was a romance writer. Go figure.
I swear, most of what I write is romance. Promise.
Just ask Konnie, she’ll tell you.
But I must say I am having fun with this sci-fi, and it isn’t
like I have never liked sci-fi. I’m a Star Trek fan from way back.
Actually, that is something Konnie and I have in common –
Star Trek.
She even used names associated with Star Trek in her opus
sci-fi. And I mean a ton of names from the Star Trek universe, both character
names and actor names. She’s even got Roddenberry in there, both Gene and
Majel! She actually did a great job.
She’s got a Takai and a Sulu in there and every time I read
at least Takai’s lines I hear George Takai saying the line in my head! I do not
have any problems with most of the others. There is that issue with her
character Crosby where I always envision Tasha Yar, but generally, I just have
fun seeing all those familiar names on the page.
I haven’t done the same, but Konnie’s sci-fi is set way far
in Earth’s future whereas mine is set in an alien universe, so there is a big difference
there.
There is one major change I’ve made to my sci-fi this last
month or so and that is moving the first scene with my hero to before the first scene with my heroine. This seems kind of strange because this whole story started
from a writing prompt competition, I entered ages ago. Everybody loved the
first few lines I wrote from the prompt in the heroine’s POV.
The problem was that the stuff I later wrote in the hero’s POV happened well before the first scene in the heroine’s POV, so I had to make the change. Linear wise it makes more sense, so it needed done.
Anyway, happy writing everyone!
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