It's been AGES since I posted an update on this site.
I've been awfully busy, as any of you who've been following jamesandthecity.blogspot.com.
Travelling here and there, and working on getting my life together.
Well, I wrote Chapter Six and though it was short, I quite like the way it put a certain part of the plot back on track.
I'd spent so much time with Maggie and Glen recently, just getting them from moment to moment, that I was unable to address someof the larger issues in their relationship.
So now I'm getting to represent the essential conflicts in the story, and bring back some of the supporting characters.
Helena for one. Maggie's mother for another. And the best friend Sandy. She hasn't made an appearance since Chapter Two or Three, I think.
I'm currently working on Chapter Seven, and hopefully will get it finished some time in the next week.
And all you lucky readers will get a chance to see what else happens next in the lives of Glen and Maggie.
In fact, I'm qute interested to see how things turn out, because they've started to take over the story a bit, and they're starting to lead me into some new territory I hadn't considered when I was plotting the chapters.
The book may not end the way I had planned it.
Now all of you and I really ARE on this journey together.
Soon.
J.J
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Five Done
WELL!
It's been ages , I know. But this chapter was a toughy to write. It's their first love scene. Also, it was MY first love scene. Never written one before. Interesting.
And a lot easier than I thought.
Well, once they were IN the bedroom it was easier. The trip TO the bedroom, however, was NOT.
Also, the structure of this chapter has broken completely from my synopsis. They weren't supposed to do it till Chapter Six. Now they've already done it, and I don't know WHAT the hell is going to happen next, or how I'm going to stay on track with the rest of the breakdown.
But at this point, I think that characters are starting to lead me.
The ending still feels like it will be the ending that I wrote, but I think the journey there is going to change just a bit.
Oh well, I guess that's all a part of the writing process.
I know my friend Joy Fielding (New York Times Best Selling Author, said the name-dropper), has talked on her site about the halfway point where a book suddenly changes direction and she realizes that she has to go back and retweak the opening. Sucks. But hopefully it means the end product is better.
The top of Chapter Five was tough going. My GOD I didn't feel like writing it. I even did HOUSEWORK to avoid writing it. Yeeks!
However, once they started getting it on, amazingly, I ZOOMED straight through it. (I didn't even want to take my lunch break at work today, because they were JUST about to climax!!)
Writing the sex seems to come quite naturally to me.
THAT'S something I wasn't aware of before.
Just means I have an over-active, and mildly filthy imagination.
Anyway, that's all from me today.
I can't wait to see what they do in Chapter Six, cause quite frankly, I'm like all of you, I haven't the SLIGHTEST idea.
Soon.
J.J
It's been ages , I know. But this chapter was a toughy to write. It's their first love scene. Also, it was MY first love scene. Never written one before. Interesting.
And a lot easier than I thought.
Well, once they were IN the bedroom it was easier. The trip TO the bedroom, however, was NOT.
Also, the structure of this chapter has broken completely from my synopsis. They weren't supposed to do it till Chapter Six. Now they've already done it, and I don't know WHAT the hell is going to happen next, or how I'm going to stay on track with the rest of the breakdown.
But at this point, I think that characters are starting to lead me.
The ending still feels like it will be the ending that I wrote, but I think the journey there is going to change just a bit.
Oh well, I guess that's all a part of the writing process.
I know my friend Joy Fielding (New York Times Best Selling Author, said the name-dropper), has talked on her site about the halfway point where a book suddenly changes direction and she realizes that she has to go back and retweak the opening. Sucks. But hopefully it means the end product is better.
The top of Chapter Five was tough going. My GOD I didn't feel like writing it. I even did HOUSEWORK to avoid writing it. Yeeks!
However, once they started getting it on, amazingly, I ZOOMED straight through it. (I didn't even want to take my lunch break at work today, because they were JUST about to climax!!)
Writing the sex seems to come quite naturally to me.
THAT'S something I wasn't aware of before.
Just means I have an over-active, and mildly filthy imagination.
Anyway, that's all from me today.
I can't wait to see what they do in Chapter Six, cause quite frankly, I'm like all of you, I haven't the SLIGHTEST idea.
Soon.
J.J
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
One Step, Two Step
Just an update on my writerly status.
I am now officially a member of both Romance Writers of America (10 000 strong and growing!), and its local affiliate, Toronto Romance Writers.
I have been checking out the newsletters and magazines published by both organizations and I have to say I am finding it all incredibly interesting, and very informative.
I am more and more convinced of my choice to follow this path in my life.
However, there was a momentary hiccup when I opened my first issue of Romance Writers Report (from RWA National), and had the unpleasant experience of having the first letter-to-the-editor be a blatantly homophobic one.
I am debating writing a response. Since the writer of that letter was already responding to someone else's obviously NON-homophobic letter, I don't want to turn this into a tit for tat.
But really, it just upset me so much, I feel compelled to respond.
This is MY association, too. I paid my dues. I have the right to say something.
I'm just letting myself cool off long enough, so that I can create a non-shrill (the writer's words) repsonse. Also, a response that is about writing and not about homophobia. Also, we are not allowed to attack another writer directly.
Oh, well, after being raised by grandma, who could call you an asshole, and you'd never know it, I figure I can come up with something fairly cutting but still printable.
Until next time.
J.J
PS: Chapter Five is underway. Slowly. Gee, writing is hard!
I am now officially a member of both Romance Writers of America (10 000 strong and growing!), and its local affiliate, Toronto Romance Writers.
I have been checking out the newsletters and magazines published by both organizations and I have to say I am finding it all incredibly interesting, and very informative.
I am more and more convinced of my choice to follow this path in my life.
However, there was a momentary hiccup when I opened my first issue of Romance Writers Report (from RWA National), and had the unpleasant experience of having the first letter-to-the-editor be a blatantly homophobic one.
I am debating writing a response. Since the writer of that letter was already responding to someone else's obviously NON-homophobic letter, I don't want to turn this into a tit for tat.
But really, it just upset me so much, I feel compelled to respond.
This is MY association, too. I paid my dues. I have the right to say something.
I'm just letting myself cool off long enough, so that I can create a non-shrill (the writer's words) repsonse. Also, a response that is about writing and not about homophobia. Also, we are not allowed to attack another writer directly.
Oh, well, after being raised by grandma, who could call you an asshole, and you'd never know it, I figure I can come up with something fairly cutting but still printable.
Until next time.
J.J
PS: Chapter Five is underway. Slowly. Gee, writing is hard!
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