It's been a year since I worked on the book while I focused on school and re-reading it, it blows my mind how often I use the phrases "she saw", "she heard", "she looked at him", clunky adverbs like "angrily", "testily", "mockingly" etc., or endless internal monologues that I'd literally just wrote in different form in the previous chapter. I feel a little like Ayn Rand minus the talent to pull it off.
Thankfully (shit - there goes another adverb) there are some other, quite good parts, and while it hurts to cut entire paragraphs (my word count! my word count!), I do feel like this rewrite is a good one. A yearlong break is not something I recommend but I've definitely come back with a fresh perspective and new ideas (is that redundant? oh my god, does this count as a monologue?).
Then, the fact that this is what I hope to be the final rewrite before I query again in September makes it kind of magical after all.
And listening to Pryda on repeat while I write makes it even better.
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