yay!

[chrryblssmninja]

This afternoon, I finally finished typing up the novel I handwrote last summer!

Since I count this as this second draft, I’ll start on the third draft after a few days. Then the fourth draft will focus on individual character arcs, since the chapters alternate between the dreams of different characters. I don’t know if this is a good book, but I wanted to write something that gets closer to the nature of dreams as I experience them than how they’re usually portrayed in fiction. There is a plot, though. I hope the fifth draft will be polished enough to have others look at it.

I’m so glad to have finished this draft. It only took…eight months to type up my handwritten manuscript. Then again, I decided to shift the dream world to present tense, so that plus adjustments took up thinking time too. And I somewhat dropped it in Oct-Dec and Feb- mid-March. whoops.

Comments

[malinowy.livejournal.com]

Yay! And just so you know, the idea of your novel sounds really interesting.

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I hope the final product does the concept justice.

[ilovegravy.livejournal.com]

Very congrats!!! :D that's a major accomplishment!!! and omg I can't believe you HAND wrote it at first!!!!

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's actually easier for me to write out first drafts by hand. More flow, less distractions, and I can just flip open a notebook and scribble a few words or a sentence anytime.

[decadentdream.livejournal.com]

That's awesome hon, I'm so proud of you! I know what a crazy imagination you have and you've got so much skill, I've no doubt that it's a good story (and yeah, I totally know how long those things take!)

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Aw thanks! I hope I can be published like you someday!

[raygunronica.livejournal.com]

Your story sounds really interesting! I never really thought about how what is depicted and the reality of dreaming are often so different. Anyways, that's great hope you stick with it!

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Yeah- what I am trying to do is to make the dream imagery come out of each characters' experience (immediate as well as past, media consumed, and individual imagination) while awake. I hope I've conveyed that well by the final draft.

[captaintish]

Congratulations! That's quite an achievement!

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kira-iras.livejournal.com]

Congratulation :)

[chrryblssmninja.livejournal.com]

Thanks!