I've seen that door. And I've walked through it both ways before.

[leahbobet]

I have come to understand why authors write proposals. You write the proposal for the editor, sure, but you also write it to get the idea out of your head; so it'll stop haunting your footsteps, whispering in your ear; so you can stop catching yourself humming its songs in the laundry room and get back to the thing you're supposed to be writing.

That being said.

September 27, 2009 Progress Notes:

Indestructible

Words today: 100.
Words total: 100.
Reason for stopping: This is snippet and outline and notes and arguments. I'm not ready to actually start writing yet, thus the token wordcount. That's what I've got in snippets and paragraph-ends. The notes are considerably longer.

Darling du Jour: No darling.

Mean Things: The Highway of Tears. The BC Missing Women Investigation. And having to find out the bad news thirdhand.

Books in progress: Daniel Rabuzzi, The Choir Boats.
The glamour: ...actually? This is the glamour right here.

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It has character names and thematics, and some soundtrack and an argument, and the outline of the first chapter although the third scene thereof is under debate.

I made it an icon.

I guess it's a book.

Comments

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

My problem with proposals is that my note-taking, get-it-out-of-my-head process is so far from linear or sensible to anyone but me... Well. Proposals just become an uncomfortable, forced job where I try to put all of that strange assorted stuff into one coherent narrative. It rarely turns out looking like anything but raving.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Mine, apparently, looks like an argument in point-form: back and forth and circling around and rebutting. But I figure this'll either eventually get me to a chapter or two and a vague outline, or it'll get to the point where I can write the thing.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

"An argument"...that's a really interesting way to put it. I must admit, I'm looking forward to developing spines for various things once this book's done; suddenly it seems not grueling, so much, as a positive vacation compared to actual novel-writing.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

It's...well, yeah. An argument. What am I talking about here? What argument am I having with myself, around and over?

I like this bit. It's hard as hell, groping through my own brain for what it's up to, but it's exciting. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's sounds very intriguing: I shall be awaiting updates!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Hee -- I'll probably slap a thousand or two words on it and then toss it back in the soup for a year. *g*

[clarentine]

I made it an icon.

I guess it's a book.

That's what I was thinking!

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty much the indicator. *g*