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April 04, 2006
Devil Daughter Returns
I started working on my novel again this evening.
I haven't touched it since November 28 when I put the last updated pages in the case. I hadn't even thought about it much since then either, except to wonder whether I'd ever have the time to get back to it.
On Friday night, I realized that NaNoEdMo would be ending at midnight. I'd completely forgotten about it, so busy has my life been. I hadn't even remembered to sign up for it.
When I realized that, I cursed things. Many things. All the things that made me forget about my story. And then I wondered if I had forgotten because I didn't want to finish it. After all, I've never written a novel before. Except for the play I wrote for class, and various monologues and character explorations for perfromance, my stuff has been research-based.
Then today I learned about a new publishing company that has begun soliciting novels that are out of the mainstream. Genre-busters, basically. Which is an excellent description for my novel, since it contains a modern woman, numerous demons, Satan and the Anti-Christ. It has elements of horror, but also a love story, and some strong leanings toward chick lit. I don't know what genre to sell it as.
Learning that Moxie Press was seeking submissions, I decided to pull Devil Daughter out of the black hole that is my desk and see whether it was salvageable. And in the process of making sure I had the most recent drafts printed out to edit and peruse, I found myself reading bits, and then pages, and then whole chapters. And laughing. And occasionally (I'm not ashamed to admit this) admiring the cleverness of the author. Who I would then remember was me.
So now I'm on fire about it all over again. I don't want to go to work, I want to work on Devil Daughter. I want to finish my novel. I'll teach class. That's fine. But I want to write my book, dammit. Not sit and hope the phone rings or that someone hands me some paperwork. Right now at work, I'm putting together the manual explaining what I did and how I did it so that the people who come after me don't have to start from scratch like I did. But I'll be done with that soon. And when I am, I want to work on my book.
Posted by sally at April 4, 2006 10:32 PM
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