It occurs to me that there is a reason that Huntress took nine months to write. Between the kid (who just got back last night), the job (which has been demanding quite a bit of attention) and um.. maybe dating (don't ask, it's not worth telling), Rifts hasn't gotten a whole lot of attention from me.
I'm trying to incorporate the feedback from the more positive reviews and I'm reading about creating a better flow. It used to be that Grace would "speak" to me and I'd write whatever she wanted me to. Well she doesn't always have her shit together and insists that I deal with it on my own. Which I struggle with.
Herein lies the biggest problem. In the midst of channeling Grace, I wrote something horribly magnificent for a cliff-hanger and actually just horrible. Because I can't slap it into the middle of my book without nuking the bejesus out of something in the end to top it, I have to fill in a hundred pages of - well - filler.
There is still character development to be done since I have new characters and she's spending a lot of time in Olympus during this book. (Sorry Colorado Springs, I still love you.) So I could make things happen but I find that I'm still exploring different plot concepts. Which - if I were a better, more disciplined writer - I would have done in the beginning.
I swear, I had an outline. But uh.. it got ignored and then burned into a steaming pile of ashes and refuse. Okay, maybe it was followed loosely.
Anyhow, it's coming along. Last word count was 37,198. I have four days off over the weekend and no significant plans other than hanging out with my child and pretending that I'm an attentive, well balanced mother. I am attentive... but the well balanced is an over-exaggeration of epic proportions. He accepts it so, I will too.
Maybe I'll strike gold in the inspiration department and get this baby wrapped up. Because then you know, I have to re-write the entire thing once or twice before it goes into editing.
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