tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15257204.post6844098568223034310..comments2023-10-29T07:44:48.235-07:00Comments on Jestablog: Falling Off a CliffKamihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00531243633193697440noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15257204.post-7343640015935477772008-05-15T22:38:00.000-07:002008-05-15T22:38:00.000-07:00As far as drawering it, this novel has been around...As far as drawering it, this novel has been around for a long while. It's sat (festered) for months at a time, maybe even a year once. The very good advice definitely applies. In this particular case I just had to wait to let my down feelings pass. One wild salmon fillet and good conversation later, and I'm back in the saddle again. Yay!Kamihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00531243633193697440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15257204.post-82176607672175458782008-05-14T14:27:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:27:00.000-07:00Sounds like you had the same kind of day I had. A...Sounds like you had the same kind of day I had. After the third (or is it the sixth?) rewrite/edit of chapters 1 thru 3 of The Car Novel, I think the story sucks hard. Last week, I thought it was fine. Next week I might be in love with it again which is what I'm shooting for because this one has sat fermenting in a drawer long enough. If anything has taught me anything, it's that things always look different in the morning.C.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03405230532317363372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15257204.post-34294771426843082972008-05-14T14:03:00.000-07:002008-05-14T14:03:00.000-07:00Now and again, it's better to put a story in the d...Now and again, it's better to put a story in the drawer and let it ripen.<BR/><BR/>You might be able to grok it in the fullness of time. You'll never be objective about it, but now and again, if you put it away and read it later, some things might make more sense. (Or less, but either way is a help.)<BR/><BR/>The first story I sold had clunk in it, but I couldn't see what it was. I shelved it, came back a few months later, and came to realize I had to do a one-eighty on the ending. A character who, in first draft, had committed suicide, in the next draft, decided he would not. Pretty big change. Worked well enough to snag a sale. <BR/><BR/>The subjectivity comes back fast -- I can read a piece I wrote twenty years ago, and pretty soon, I'll shift back into the mindset I had when I wrote it -- I'll miss the same typos, and read what I think I wrote rather than what I actually did, and that's a problem. But stories do sometimes ripen in the drawer. You do have others to tell. Start one of those and get back to this one with a fresh view later.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.com