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The time has come once more for me to do battle with my very own bête noire, the novel known as Dreams of Shreds and Tatters.
Many of you who haven't fled screaming, Dreams is my adolescent mess of a novel. Not meaning I wrote it as a teen, but meaning it was my first novel after I put away the Dread Juvenilia. I wrote it with serious intent, but made a terrible mess of it in the process.
In 2008 I started a fairly serious revision. I rewrote vast swathes to get the prose up to snuff; I figured out better characterization and pacing; I trashed pointless scenes. I was within several chapters of the end when I got distracted with selling TDC.
Looking at the last revision now, I have to concede that the structure has serious problems. I still love the story, but it needs new guts on its bones, or maybe the other way around. I need to stop revising a bad book and write a better one. I kinda wish I could find a new and better title, to help sever ties.
I'll be in the corner crying if anyone needs me.
Many of you who haven't fled screaming, Dreams is my adolescent mess of a novel. Not meaning I wrote it as a teen, but meaning it was my first novel after I put away the Dread Juvenilia. I wrote it with serious intent, but made a terrible mess of it in the process.
In 2008 I started a fairly serious revision. I rewrote vast swathes to get the prose up to snuff; I figured out better characterization and pacing; I trashed pointless scenes. I was within several chapters of the end when I got distracted with selling TDC.
Looking at the last revision now, I have to concede that the structure has serious problems. I still love the story, but it needs new guts on its bones, or maybe the other way around. I need to stop revising a bad book and write a better one. I kinda wish I could find a new and better title, to help sever ties.
I'll be in the corner crying if anyone needs me.
