Nightowls gathering
This week has been a bit crazy all over the place – I meant to post about this a couple of days ago.
The first meeting of my new writing group was on Tuesday night – the novelling group that a few of us from NaNo decided to get together. We’re hoping to keep up at least some of NaNo’s momentum, to encourage each other to keep writing, to get to the end of the story, to edit and polish, and to submit. I don’t know if we’re all aiming to submit these novels, but we all want to work on these works of ours, and we all want to improve on what we’re doing.
As first meetings go, it went all right. Floundered somewhat to start with – I haven’t run a meeting like this before and it showed. The fact that we all ordered dinner kinda got in the way, too, but that’s okay. It was nice to eat and chat, and I didn’t mind that at all. We were all catching up after the Christmas/New Year break, too.
I threw in the first few chapters of my novel to see what they made of it, and got lots of useful feedback. I need to cut about 550 words out of the prologue and first chapter for the Debut Dagger competition, and the feedback I got will help me do that, I think. I’ve looked at that particular part of the novel so much (and rewritten it from scratch about twice, including one change of tense) that it desperately needed fresh eyes.
So I have a lot of work to do this weekend (as the Dagger’s deadline is in about a week). Which is good! I’ll get that done and submitted, and then can relax a little bit in that regard. But not completely – I am determined to keep plugging away at it. I have lots I want to do with and to it, so I won’t be short of work there.
After the session, I put together a post for the forum about writing synopses – I did some research prior to the meeting and might as well share! I’m hoping to get more things like that put together and posted up for people. Should I put that sort of stuff on here too? Might be good to have all my writing ramblings together in one place.
I’m trying not to add another thing to my list here – I really have enough to do at the moment, and I’m already riding the raggedy edge of my energy. I need a list of ‘when I have time’ things. In the meantime, there’s some novel-ripping in my immediate future. Where’d my red pen go?
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