Titles aren't my favorite things, and neither are subject lines...

[kassidy62]

Because it's sometimes hard to come up with the right one, is all.

The zine is done. I have two left out of 100 for sale. I ordered a small 2nd run in case I need them - 25.

And now it is time to get back to that novel of mine. Yeah, the one that was started in what, 1999.

Funny, I know people could knock out the word count I have so far in a few months. This one has been through a long journey, stops and starts. It's a vampire novel, a modern one. I've not read half the vamp lit out there, especially with the explosion of vampire romance novels, but I think it's different. There are questions posed in it that I feel are important. And it's not silly, which is the trap that vamp novels can so easily fall into.

I was part of a writing group, once. It was a small group, and all of them were friends in RL except for me and another. I offered a crit about a sensitive sex scene to the group leader and she was *not* happy. I didn't think it was that bad a crit, but who knows? I've learned to be a *little* more careful of how I phrase things since then. It was never meant to be anything other than helpful - I really don't get my rocks off on critting for the sake of being overbearing or superior. But long story short, I left the group. I let it get to me, badly, and I pretty much quit the novel when it was 3/4ths finished.

Since then I've done the fan fiction (still love it), but I need to do this. I have fan fiction bunnies whispering in my ear, because I don't turn so easily from one focus to another. But I *think* this novel is worth trying to turn the focus. I think.

I'll see, won't I?

Comments

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

your writing group experience sucks - I get that it's difficult to be told something you've written doesn't work - but then, why join a writing group if not for the assistance you get from crit and suggestion. Okay, if someone said - 'that's cr*p, doesn't work at all and you have no talent' - it would be hurtful (to say the least!) -but (and I don't imagine that's what you said at all!) helpful, constructive criticism is surely why you're in a group in the first place?

It's a shame that it put you off your own goal for a while - hopefully you can take up the reins again.

'zine - FAB! - I'm trying to save it for when I have to go away next week, but it's difficult to resist and I keep on dipping in!

[kassidy62.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're liking the zine - thanks so much for the People, interview, too:)
Where are you going next week? Nosey. Or is that nosy?

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

glad the people arrived in the end - it reads a little bit like a cheesy drama of the week at times, but still an amazing amount of detail considering the nature of the subject matter.

Next week - I'm off on a training course (specific tasks when case managing sex offenders - as I've been 'managing' them for some time now it will be interesting to see what I *should* be doing!) - in Mildenhall in the middle of nowhere (but next to an RAF base....)