{"id":218,"date":"2015-12-01T11:18:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=218"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T15:18:06","slug":"edit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Edit…2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Survived the vacation. Received my batch of second edits to Homecoming<\/em>. The editor wants more description. In this, I must disagree.<\/p>\n

I hate, hate, HATE, text blocks of description. I write like a journalist. I write dialogue, short paragraphs, rapid-fire sentences. I don’t describe in my storytelling because I feel that it drags down the story. Setting, yeah, maybe I need to describe that more, but people? I’m really not good at describing faces in detail, and I’m not good with describing people, either. My strength is the dialogue.<\/p>\n

While I was on vacation, I came up with a pretty romance that I might do under my real name. It’s about a mermaid that doesn’t know she’s a mermaid because her father has kept her from the sea all her life. She lives in land-locked Nebraska where there is no salt water. She gets a hankering to go to the ocean and heads east, finds the son of a fishing trawler off the South Carolina coast, and they fall in love, until she falls into the ocean and becomes a mermaid. The mer-people find her and the really handsome mer-prince wants her to stay, but she feels obligated to go back to the sea captain’s son…<\/p>\n

It’s written to a formula from a book I read. If I become a paranormal\/YA romance writer, I know I can make money off that (romance readers are insatiable!). I went to the Barnes & Noble store in Florida and saw five book cases of Sci\/Fi, and six book cases of YA, two with YA\/Romance only. Three bookcases of magick, and I couldn’t find the writing books anywhere (Good thing. I don’t need any more of those.)<\/p>\n

I want to write Toxicon’s story, too, flesh it out into a better short story and put it out there to introduce the Teen Guardians in a novel or novella. That would be under Jake’s name.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m off to see what the second batch of edits is going to be.<\/p>\n

PS, finished NaNo before I left, 50,068 words. I’ll clean it up and probably do something with it, because it’s actually pretty good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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