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Huzzah! This is a big deal. I wrote the novel in nanowrimo 2004, but kept fixing the beginning. Last week I figured out where I wanted the narrative to begin from, but yesterday I wrote the actual beginning. I'm not sure I'll post it to F&F till I have a couple of chapters.
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Well, nice to know you can finally write your story you want. I keep deleting my work and restarting as I've felt something needed to be done and changed.
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Yeah... that and balance out the amount of flesh and skeleton that is going on in the middle. Those flesh only parts in particular are troubling.
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That last comment struck a nerve: what counts as flesh and not bone. Surely everything in a novel is contributing something, be it tone or a feeling.
I suppose it's more a question of cutting things that don't contribute enough, or that contribute the wrong thing...
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Wee early this morning I was going through a manic box opening spree, and I ran across the critiqued writing sample from the seminar I took in the fall. I had been avoiding reading it... well, only actively for 5 months. Then it was in a box and I couldn't have gotten to it even though I didn't want to. Well, I read it and there wasn't anything terribly shocking- since during the move I had run across her summary note and it was the same information.
Phew.
I really have been become gradually willing to endure feedback in the last few months.
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I was a little confused by the name change; thanks for clarifying. Congratulations on beginning anew on the novel, and probably more importantly, on your newfound ability to endure feedback. (Of course, I must wonder how you have survived a lifetime in the family of Survivor without becoming completely adjusted to "feedback.") Good luck with finishing the novel.
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Oh, that's quite easy. I don't give feedback except by request. You've got to rub the lamp, eh?
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I was hoping the writing workshop would help me get it ready for Survivor to look at. Survivor is a creampuff relative to some people in our family Myself included at times.
But yeah, since I started this thread I actually found and discarded yet another beginning and now I have another, and I really think this is it. I have been narrowing in on the true beginning of the story, I hope.
All along I've known that if I would just commit to my starting point, I could go ahead and write things out from that point and it would all be good. Though I'm a little wondering if things are going to end where I currently think they are. I guess I'll find out. I had a lot of complaints about the ending of my first draft.
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Good luck with finishing the novel.
