{"id":655,"date":"2018-11-25T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=655"},"modified":"2018-11-25T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:41:30","slug":"oh-no-not-enough-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"OH NO! Not enough story!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I finished Yellowtree <\/em>this morning, this first draft clocking in at 40,314 words. There are a few spots that I could repeat, and a few threads that I totally dropped.\u00a0 One book I’m reading now has repeated the main character’s main feelings four times within a hundred pages, so I know what not <\/em>to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The threads I dropped, I’ll pick up again right now, to try and fill the 10K words. However, because I dropped them, they must be unnecessary so I’ll take them out on the second pass. Watch me end up with a 30K word book by the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I discovered that my main character also has feelings, unlike Mike. This is so hard for me to write. Not because I have no feelings, but because I love anti-heroes and most of my stories consist of anti-heroes. To have a main character feel bad about killing another person, even in self-defense, is something that I’m not used to. (I’m not a sociopath, at least according to my last psych eval…:-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I may just end up doing a secondary story running parallel to this one, something to do with Claudette. I want to explore her more, make her more than the crazy old lady in the falling-down mansion a’la<\/em> Charles Dickens. And I definitely wanted to bring in Nash more, but I couldn’t find a place for him due to time constraints. Owen is a dropped thread, a Chekov’s gun that was never used. And all of a sudden, at the beginning of the end, the main character Kevin starts to burn bridges. What the hell was that all about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I have to make notes on the time period, days that things are taking place. I also have to pack for the RI Author Expo for next Saturday. I’m not expecting to do a lot of sales there because it’s going to be so overwhelming. I will probably not do it next year, depending on how this year ends up. Last year a thousand people came through. This year, we’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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