![]() How I feel when someone suggests I'm crazy for even suggesting this is possible:īut how I'll probably feel in a few weeks (because did I mention, in 10 days, I'm a bridesmaid in my best friend's wedding out of state, followed by BEA in NYC, followed by my cousin's wedding out of state as well?) My critique partners when I'm all, "I'm going to first draft Shiny Story this week and finish MBB revisions next week!" Cool it.): And me with Shiny New Story Idea: On the other hand, I have had a version of this story in my head for a long time, and then a week ago, it basically was making my head hurt so much I was like, FINE, SHINY STORY IDEA, I WILL WRITE YOU!So me with Magic Balloon Book (Dear SSWG, I'm not ACTUALLY going to call it that. Self imposed deadlines tend to move too, especially since I'm also applying to grad schools at the end of this summer and retaking the GREs. ![]() Ideally, I'd like to have these revisions done by the end of May so I can put this down for June and come back to it in July and query by the end of the summer. So I'm starting to go back through those changes. I figured out a possible solution to a problem that Super Scary Writing Group pointed out, repeatedly, and it's enough of a change that thinking about it makes me want to drink.(Edit: FFS, the gifs don't want to work embedded and I don't have time to fix it. Then I started to revise and you know, care about what the book's problems were because I want to be a better writer ( and because I want to get this book published). In fact, the fact that MBB's first draft only took me a month was LONG for me. So I'm still plugging away on #magicballoonbook whose revisions have given me greater understanding on why writing a book actually takes forfuckingever.
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