After a 3000 word binge of writing (the most I've put down on a single thing all in one sitting in quite a while) Part 1 of the Oh, Cheers rewrite is done done DONE!
Wooo! Throw the confetti! Set up the buffet! Celebrate!
What was initially about 28 pages of text has been transformed into more than 65, with a story that was originally 40k words for all three parts combined currently sitting at only a couple hundred words short of 38k for part 1 alone. And that's just the first draft! Once I finish all three parts, there's the editing phase, which will likely lead to some additions, some removals, and all in all a LOT of changes.
For the moment, though! I am going to celebrate this first part's completion (a work that is equal in length to the entire first book of Princess For Hire, and done in much less time, I might point out) and take a short break to work on a couple of other money-earning masterpieces; to wit, publishable versions of Dear John and another short story collection focused mainly on my Little By Little series!
I know a lot of people are probably getting REALLY tired of me talking about writing in my blogs and never putting up anything new to read, and for that I apologize. The simple truth is, as much as I love writing, it isn't something that is particularly easy for me most of the time. If I could just connect a device to my head and drain all the ideas out into movies, music, and books, I'd be bringing you a novel a day and a film a week, with an album or two of music every couple of days. As is, I have to work hard to keep my mind focused on just one of the many things running through it constantly enough to get it down, and working on my discipline means working on less things at once to make sure at least SOMETHING actually gets done.
I'm really sorry, peeps. I know it's annoying, I know it's frustrating to look at all the things I have incomplete on here and not know when they're going to continue. I know, I know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. For now, I'm trying to put myself on more solid footing money-wise, though, so those things that might actually pull in a paycheck are going to be at the fore for a little while, and that includes my books I'm setting up for publishing.
So, please, wish me luck, and bear with me.
Melanie E.
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I really loved Oh, Cheers. I
I really loved Oh, Cheers. I even go back and re-read it once in a while. I didn't know you were re-writing it and it's very exciting to hear how far along you are. I'm very much looking forward to reading your newest version. I don't know if that'll be in two weeks or three years but either way, you've got at least one fan here waiting for it.
Are you considering re-writing and finishing up Boys of Summer afterwards or has that been completely shelved? I really loved the characters there and I was rather saddened that a few tactless comments derailed your story. In the same vain of questioning, are you also considering anything with Echoes as well? I know, I know, you can only do so much at once but I'm curious.
Good luck with all your endeavours. Take your time! Though, maybe not too much time, okay? :P
Yes on both, at least tentatively.
Echoes is a definite on the continuation part, and Boys of Summer? I've had enough people ask me for it, that it's a definite maybe. The change is going to be, any rewrite I do of the two (and at this point I'd have to rewrite them just to get into the right frame of mind) will be with intent to publish on Kindle rather than to post here :(
The only stories I have up right now I plan to continue as online serials are Princess For Hire and Switcheroo. Once I finish Princess For Hire, though, it'll get the book treatment too, with a clean, improved edit/rewrite, and probably some book-only content, like a side story about one of the other oh-so-popular students a lot of people want to see!
If that's too much of an annoyance for people, I have been considering doing the whole "snippet as advertisement" thing a lot of authors do, to give people a taste of the story, then they can buy the rest. Doing so would make me feel like a huge hypocrite since I've complained about the same tactic in the past, but right now I'm technically unemployed, in a new place, and strapped for cash.
Ya gots ta do what ya gots ta do.
Melanie E.
Thanks and Good Luck!
I'd like to add my thanks for your earlier versions of all three works previously noted. I trust you will suitably advertise the completion of any and all new versions? And you have my complete sympathy for any focus problems. (If you find a solution to such, please let me know?)
Best wishes, then, and good luck with continued (and profitable?) inspiration and any other source of sustenance!
Chuck
Thank ya very much!
Of course I'll let people know they get finished! How else will people know to buy them? :D
Melanie E.