Revisions are so… I need a word here. Dry? Revisions are so dry, people. Dry work. After the initial excitement of I-am-strengthening-my-book-I-am wears off all that is left is DRYNESS.
But I’m still plugging away.
That in itself is largely thanks to my novel-in-progress, which is keeping me from revision related eye stabbing. I am getting progressively more excited about it, minus an hour yesterday where I wondered if it was time to scrap everything and write to the Discovery Channel about giving me my own ghost hunting show (tentatively called Ghost Hunting with Courtney & Friends–who’s in?).
Anyway, I’m calling it CRAZY DEATH TOWN NOVEL to everyone who asks, even though it’s actual title is… not that, thank goodness. Superstitious, you know. I was actually almost too superstitious to share my superstitious title in my blog but I am getting seriously tired of typing ‘novel-in-progress’ and here we are. Anyway, I think CDT is finally the answer to all those times I tried to write a YA novel that was scary-ish but got tripped up by my lack of scary brain power (read: massive, unfixable plot holes). Sweet.
And it’s been really neat writing this one because my process has been kind of different. I haven’t been writing in chronological order so I keep alluding to things I’ll have to go back and write and it’s kind of neat because it’s saving me a little Sit Down and Outline time. That’s not to say I haven’t outlined–I have–but it means I’m creating an outline as I write, instead of writing an outline before I create. Hopefully that makes sense.
In other news, I finally figured out how to spend my Christmas money. I must admit it is an amazing feat that I have any Christmas money left to spend–the money! It burns! My pockets!–but check it out, people: if everything goes according to plan, by the end of the month, I will be the proud owner of…
An autoharp.
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It has been the stringed instrument I have been searching for all of my days and I am so excited about potentially owning one I can’t even tell you. My only regret is that no one told me such a fine music making machine existed sooner.
My life autoharpless is and has been, incomplete.
Doing edits is the worst for me because I have such a hard time with spelling and grammer. Also my mind does not think in structure so I have to organize the choas into something others could possiably understand and I get really frustrated that being.
It is sort of like having a prize fight going on inside me between my brain and my soul. When the brain wins things tend to end up deleted or in the trash, when the soul when I fight on until I get it right.
C.
Babery? I don’t even know what that means. And it’s not in my handy-dandy Dictionary widget thingy. Oh, anti-spam word, why must you tease me so?
When you get your autoharp, you need to do a photoshoot with it so that I can admire it in all its autoharp glory. I’m telling you, our two-person rock band is gonna be THE BEST, rockin’ out with the piano and autoharp and flute. Heh.
I got all the crazy sounding words from a list of defunct/uncommon/out of use words dictionary thing I found on google! It’s so awesome. I wanted to trip those spambots, up yo. I’ll have to dig up the URL and send it to you. It’s way awesome.
Ahahaha, omg. I so will. I’ve decided though, that we have to get a Qchord for our two person band even if we have an autoharp, flute and piano and even if we agreed they sound slightly tinny and synthy because THEY DON’T REQUIRE LEARNING basically, and also because we need something shimmery to accent our theme. Our band totally needs a theme. So, Qchord used sparingly, Y/N?
Brian: I sympathise!! Revisions are one of the most challengings and (hopefully, by the time they’re done) rewarding things about writing! I tend to get too wordy in first drafts and it can be really nice to par it down and watch the word count uninflate.
ALALIA.
Ahh so I have YOU to blame for all these crazy words I’ve never heard of before. Or rather, you to THANK. I so want that website, if you can ever dig it up.
And to answer your question: YYYYYYY!!!!
Lori: I can’t find the site I used and I didn’t bookmark and google is failing me! Dammit. But! Here is another weird word site that is worth visiting. I’m totally going to comb through it for more anti-spam words:
phrontistery.info