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Confessions of a Creataholic
May 2010 ArchiveThis and that.Azure (my eldest daughter) will be attending her high school graduation after all, even though she claims to find that kind of cerimony pointless and inconvenient and boring, because people she knows insisted that they wanted to “see her walk”. I took the younger two kids to the eye doctor and they will both be getting glasses… just in time for school to be over. I have this vague suspicion that I got the timing wrong on that one somehow. And I think that’s about all there is to report. Other than the usual driving kids about, and waiting for Black Flag scenes to render, I haven’t been doing much. So now for the latest In My Head Theater update, (because I have discovered that I like having a record of what stories I was mentally developing when). I got a scene of Lock talking with his brother-in-law about how Lock has a serious woman problem. Which is a bit ironic considering who is brother-in-law is. I’m guessing this scene, if it ever showed up, would go somewhere after the new six — which I think I will call The Voyage of the Obsidian Star for now, ’cause I have to call it something. The scene probably won’t ever appear, however. I don’t see how it moves anything forward. I also ended up running the courtroom scene from Blood Brothers — NOT as a dance number. Whew! Plus I was getting stuff relating to the novel I’m supposedly writing, only I’ve been concentrating on Black Flag instead. I hope my back-brain isn’t trying to tell me anything. I want to get this first Black Flag story finished. I feel like it’s been going on for forever. Forget the NumbersI’m getting more and more convinced that I need a Black Flag story between what is now Volume 5 and what is now Volume 6. Which means that 6 is really 7, and 7 is really 8, and… I need to start calling them by their titles, so I don’t get confused. So… On the plus side I got the next Black Flag page done in only three days. Three days is okay. Three days I can work with. Box OfficeFor the past week, In My Head Theatre has been running the one about the guru that reminds me of Scent of Spring (particularly the last scene), and the scene from Blood Brothers where Arouj invokes his Captain’s privilege. It also coughed up quite a few new bits of Black Flag 7 (although I’m not sure how “finalized” those bits are — the whole thing is still too fragmented for me to confident that there won’t be changes/slippage). I’ve also had some between volumes Black Flag scenes running, “Why Ghost looks the way she does and what her father did when he found out” and “How Morgan and Kidd manage to finally agree to a contract”. (Until now I hadn’t been absolutely sure that those two ever would get a contract, although the family scenes from Blood Brothers seemed to suggest that they might.) As far as story development outside of my head goes, I finished off two Black Flag pages in one day, but unfortunately it was after having worked on both of them for a couple weeks. Wah! Why is it going sooooo slow? Be careful what you ask for.I heard from a friend about a site for getting feedback on query letters. In this case, not editorial or agent feedback, but just feedback from other writers… very much geared to be very short and to the point “yes, I’d want to read more”, “no I wouldn’t” but with the option of adding a brief comment if desired. In theory, one can get a lot of responses on a number of queries and get some kind of idea as to which would be most effective. Although, at the moment, I doubt the site is big enough for that to work right. Still, some feedback is better than no feedback… or is it? I put up a query for something none of my friends had read yet, fudging all information but the plot. And I actually got a comment on it. One which makes no sense to me. So now I’m fretting over how the reader could possibly have gotten that out of what I wrote, instead of doing anything useful. Arg! |
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