I've been in the trenches and revising for over a week. Some of it has taken me ages, other bits haven't been too hard to handle. But I'm nowhere near where I need to be as far as wanting to send it to the editor. Not yet.
First I have to rework the most difficult sections. Sections I hope will impact the readers' emotionally and supercharge them with empathy for my heroine. She's a feisty woman with lots of backbone, but even my heroine has her breaking point. And I just couldn't bear to write the scene today. Not at the end of the day.
I made notes, jotted down ideas, and arrived at the painful conclusion that I need to ramp up the action and pump adrenaline into these scenes' arteries. This is how it is going for me. I have to write something painful, something deeply emotional, and it's going to hurt. Not just my heroine, but me.
The truth is this heroine and I have been together quite some time. I've discovered a truth about her during this revision that is deeply painful. But I don't blame her for hiding it all these years. I know she's deeply private. I know she's trying to protect herself and her family from this pain.
There's no way I can force her to go through this right now. Or myself. It's emotionally draining. I have to mine her emotional experience from the depths of my soul.
I shall do that after a good night's sleep.
2 comments:
Christine--I totally get this. How certain scenes have to wait. How emotional it is to write certain scenes.
How attached we get to our heroines and heros.
I just wrote a blog post last week titled "Married to my Hero." I had a hard time letting my hero for my last ms go.
I hope you got the scene written and it went well. Well, well from a writing standpoint. :)
I did write the scenes and I hope they are written well. I have to go through and make the tension better, but it's at a good place.
Thanks so much for stopping by the Veranda :-)
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