Comments on: New Love http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/ Book reviews & writing tips from a wannabe YA writer Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kelly http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5105 Kelly Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:24:04 +0000 http://yannabe.com/?p=1770#comment-5105 Catherine, you make some good points too. Argh, I'm so torn! It's not that I hate last year's novel, it's just that my heart goes thump-thump-THUMP for this year's. Maybe I'll alternate between them. I work part-time so that gives me 1 full day plus a couple hours off every week. So the couple hours could be for the old novel, the full day could be devoted to the new one. This might work! Catherine, you make some good points too. Argh, I’m so torn! It’s not that I hate last year’s novel, it’s just that my heart goes thump-thump-THUMP for this year’s.

Maybe I’ll alternate between them. I work part-time so that gives me 1 full day plus a couple hours off every week. So the couple hours could be for the old novel, the full day could be devoted to the new one.

This might work!

]]> By: Kelly http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5104 Kelly Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:21:23 +0000 http://yannabe.com/?p=1770#comment-5104 Jodie, that's good to keep in mind. I started two other novels before doing NaNo last year, but lost interest before finishing the first drafts. I wonder if I'm one of those people who just needs to truck through to get it done, otherwise I'll never make it to the finish line with anything. Hmm... Jodie, that’s good to keep in mind. I started two other novels before doing NaNo last year, but lost interest before finishing the first drafts. I wonder if I’m one of those people who just needs to truck through to get it done, otherwise I’ll never make it to the finish line with anything. Hmm…

]]> By: Catherine http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5091 Catherine Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:48 +0000 http://yannabe.com/?p=1770#comment-5091 That happens to most writers--the call of the siren, the shiny new idea. I'm unpublished and have written maybe 9 ms, and one of those went through six drafts. I worked on it for two years and maybe would've kept tinkering on it forever, until someone from my writer's group suggested that sometimes you just need to move on. My idea for going with the ms that gives you juice is just that--you're fired up about it. If you hate the original ms, can hardly stand the the thought of working on it, you probably won't get back into it, anyway. .-= Catherine's last blog: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/neUb/~3/lXUG1NaGA-Y/100-mile-fitness-challenge-update-its.html" rel="nofollow">100 Mile Fitness Challenge Update: It's NOT over!</a> =-. That happens to most writers–the call of the siren, the shiny new idea. I’m unpublished and have written maybe 9 ms, and one of those went through six drafts. I worked on it for two years and maybe would’ve kept tinkering on it forever, until someone from my writer’s group suggested that sometimes you just need to move on.

My idea for going with the ms that gives you juice is just that–you’re fired up about it. If you hate the original ms, can hardly stand the the thought of working on it, you probably won’t get back into it, anyway.
.-= Catherine’s last blog: 100 Mile Fitness Challenge Update: It’s NOT over! =-.

]]> By: Jodie http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5062 Jodie Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:27:20 +0000 http://yannabe.com/?p=1770#comment-5062 I remember reading an interview with Meg Cabot where she said she has boxes of unfinished novels because before she got disciplined she abandoned them for a new shiny thing, which then got chucked for another new shiny thing...so on until she buckled down and finished something, then became a published writer. She implores people not to give up on their established projects because they will never go back to them and ideas get wasted. So something to think about. .-= Jodie's last blog: <a href="http://bookgazing.blogspot.com/2009/12/44th-bookworm-carnival-rebellious-women.html" rel="nofollow">44th Bookworm Carnival - Rebellious Women</a> =-. I remember reading an interview with Meg Cabot where she said she has boxes of unfinished novels because before she got disciplined she abandoned them for a new shiny thing, which then got chucked for another new shiny thing…so on until she buckled down and finished something, then became a published writer. She implores people not to give up on their established projects because they will never go back to them and ideas get wasted. So something to think about.
.-= Jodie’s last blog: 44th Bookworm Carnival – Rebellious Women =-.

]]> By: Catherine http://yannabe.com/2009/12/28/new-love/comment-page-1/#comment-5048 Catherine Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:08:15 +0000 http://yannabe.com/?p=1770#comment-5048 Love, definitely. .-= Catherine's last blog: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/neUb/~3/Z12wqbN6s0I/happy-holidays.html" rel="nofollow">Happy Holidays!</a> =-. Love, definitely.
.-= Catherine’s last blog: Happy Holidays! =-.

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