I don’t know what happened. I’ve had several papers due for school and work has been hectic. I have made some progress on several of my novels, but none of them are close enough to completion to call almost done. I have notebooks full of information about Sister City, but I haven’t had the time to post them here. I hope that when school is out, which granted is not for another 11 months, that I will have more time to accurately chronicle the writing of Sister City unfortunately, until school is done. I will be spending most of my time answering discussion questions and writing term papers. I do have a deadline to finish Sister City as my beta reader, thank god I found her, is leaving for vacation on June 12, 2009. She’ll be gone for 2 1/2 weeks and has asked to be able to read it during her vacation, which, of course, makes perfect sense. She has three plane rides, totaling close to 27 hours. Who wouldn’t want something to read on the plane ride that long? As most people, who can read a calendar will automatically realize, June 12 is only two and some odd weeks away. That doesn’t give me much time to finish. Well. It’s just a draft, but it still needs to be finished in order to get a decent beta response
I think that once I have the first rough draft done and get a decent response from the beta reader that it will be easier for me to go back and edit. I often have a difficult time with the second and third draft, because I constantly find something that needs to be changed. Not just changed, but drastically altered. This could prove to be problematic, especially if more than one person is beta reading the book. Hopefully. And this is just a goal, but hopefully I will have at least 3 to 4 people to beta read this book before I send it to the publisher. Of course, if the publisher is willing to look at it
I am interested in feedback on any of the characters in the book. My biggest fear having written Harry Potter fan fiction is that I will end up with a Mary Sue character.
Now, I am off to edit this post as I have been using my new dictation software and there are some obvious grammatical errors that need to be corrected. I am, however, very intrigued by the software as I have been able to work on schoolwork, while I have been making this post. I am hoping that this new software will allow me to work on the book by allowing me to free think onto paper quickly while I’m doing other things. I tend to have some of my best writing ideas when I’m involved in other things. I have a great set of headphones that apparently work, while NCIS is on TV, and that means I can get a ton of work done while I’m doing other awesomely cool things.
