Tuesday, November 25, 2008

A Novel Idea for Those Deleted Scenes

I spent most of my free time yesterday revising Summer's Song. It's amazing the different direction it is taking - I hope with good results, ultimately. I've cut SO much, though. I have an entire separate file with all the scenes no longer in the actual story. When I was at the NJRWA conference, one of the speakers recommended telling yourself you'll post those tidbits later on your website, under your "free reads" or "deleted scenes" section. Whether or not you ever do (she didn't) at least it eases the pain of ripping them from the story.

My word count for Entwined is still behind, but that's OK. I have a few days off for Thankgiving break, so let's hope I can catch up then. Right now, I'm wrapping up the first part of the main plot and hope to start working on one of the three subplots soon.

Oh, by the way, Samhain is hosting a Holiday Hunt, with a number of authors participating - you can win free downloads of their books! It starts December 1st, so stay tuned for more details~

Current Word Count for Entwined: 11,266

Yesterday's Fave Sentence: His heart aches with the distance between them, and yet he could more easily stop its beating than stop coming to Natasha Silverstone’s bed every night.

6 comments:

Jennifer Shirk said...

Oooh, that's a great sentence!

mslizalou said...

Great sentence! I'm loving your favorites each day.

Dru said...

WTG on the word count and I love this sentence.

Indrayani said...

I just wish so much that I could access your books in India!!

Keep up the work!

Diane Craver said...

Great sentence! WTG on your revising and your word count on new book!

Marianne Arkins said...

What a great idea about deleted scenes!