Musing
Saturday, chilly and gloomy, and I've got a tinge of a headache. No, not from too many peach bellini's (I wish), just from thinking too hard.
I got up early (at 7 - early for a Saturday) to work on a mss that's due March 1st I'm not sure I'm going to make it. But struggling to put words on paper, I got to wondering how people like Nora do it. It's rumored she does 25 pages a day minimum.
Does she allow herself to write a bad first draft, then go back and correct it? Or is she so experienced now (after I don't know how many books), that each words is like a pearl, already perfectly polished? We should all be so lucky! And she'd probably laugh her head off to read this.
But I remember before I tried writing, I had this vague idea all writers simply sat down, typed their story (no sweat, no tears) as it came to them, finished up, printed, sent it to NY, and it appeared a few months later in a pretty little books. I never wondered about plotting, characterization, word choice, or grammer. I never imagined how difficult it can be.
Once on a family vacation, I emerged from my travel trailer after having abandoned the group for two hours to write. I walked up to my husband and proudly offered "I got six pages done!"
My sister in law looked at me and said "That's not very many." Again, the perception of antying up to the keyboard and virtually spewing a book!
Speaking of which, I'd better get back to it.
I got up early (at 7 - early for a Saturday) to work on a mss that's due March 1st I'm not sure I'm going to make it. But struggling to put words on paper, I got to wondering how people like Nora do it. It's rumored she does 25 pages a day minimum.
Does she allow herself to write a bad first draft, then go back and correct it? Or is she so experienced now (after I don't know how many books), that each words is like a pearl, already perfectly polished? We should all be so lucky! And she'd probably laugh her head off to read this.
But I remember before I tried writing, I had this vague idea all writers simply sat down, typed their story (no sweat, no tears) as it came to them, finished up, printed, sent it to NY, and it appeared a few months later in a pretty little books. I never wondered about plotting, characterization, word choice, or grammer. I never imagined how difficult it can be.
Once on a family vacation, I emerged from my travel trailer after having abandoned the group for two hours to write. I walked up to my husband and proudly offered "I got six pages done!"
My sister in law looked at me and said "That's not very many." Again, the perception of antying up to the keyboard and virtually spewing a book!
Speaking of which, I'd better get back to it.
posted by Karen Whiddon at 1:31 PM
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