First of all, I downloaded Midnight Rose the new e-book from one of my auto-buy authors Shelby Reed (Just so you know, aside from my cp’s, I have only two other auto-buy authors–Lisa Kleypas and Shelby Reed. You can find the link to MR and Shelby’s site in my blog sidebar) I was up until 4 am reading the wonderful story and then woke at 8:30 am to finish it. Sooooo good. I just adore her gorgeous heroes (this one’s a vampire) and her heroines are everyday gals like you and I who manage to snag hereos to-die-for just by virtue of being themselves. Her writing is beautifully descriptive and when it comes to emotion, I think Shelby is the queen.
Second, due to a server error, my site was down all day. Then when it went live again, the databases were skewed so my blog and message board was out of order for about an hour longer. That just plain sucked. 
And then I was wondering if my blog would be up by tonight in time for me to make my entry for the day and I realized that I’ve gotten into the ritual of writing in my blog everyday. I was going to miss it, if it stayed down. But obviously, it was fixed and I am getting in my blogging fix.
I got past my writer’s stump I suffered through yesterday and got about 10 pages written today, still not much for me, but better than the 1 page of the day before. Unfortunately, my characters took the revision in a way I never thought it would go, changing a key dynamic, I think. Now I will have to see how the change effects the rest of my edits on the story. I’m always startled when characters start acting unexpectedly. I try to talk them into doing what I think they should do and usually they listen, but not today. Stubborn as they are, they insisted on doing it their way. So I’ll go with the flow for now, but if it ends up setting the whole book off whack, I may have to go back and try to reason with them again. *sigh* I’m so not a negotiator. 
Revision is so wonderful in that wya! I say, go with the flow, because whenver my characters have begun to do things I didn’t tell them to do, or had expected them to do, it meant that I wasn’t writing them correctly. Or, re-write the scene from the other character’s POV; maybe the perspective of the scene is wrong and the characters are going off into their own tangents because the focus of the “camera” is off.
by Sidonie October 27th, 2004 at 2:18 pmThank you, dear Sylvia…thank you so much!
Shelby Reed:grin:
by Shelby Reed October 30th, 2004 at 8:12 pm