It's creeping up on two weeks since I finished the first banged out draft of A Sudden Frost. You're supposed to let the thing breathe for a while while your mind clears of the story. It's true. I always get some perspective after a little time away from the book, and I see things that I didn't see before. This will especially be true this time, because I had hardly any time to think about what I was writing. I was on a strict deadline.
This weekend I'll open the document and start reading what I've written. I'll start jotting down, on my mind map, the areas that need fleshing out, scenes that need cutting, scenes that need to be added, characters that didn't do much and need to be cut loose, plot threads that were dropped and need to be picked up or cut entirely.
I've been cheating a little. Of course. I can't stay completely away. I've been thinking about certain plot threads and further research that needs to be done, so that I really know what the hell I'm talking about. So I need to do more research.
Research helps to drive the plot and characters forward, too. So I'm excited to really get into the meat of the story now.
However, I need to wash the floor, do laundry, take my little guy for a hair cut and absolutely go to see The Lovely Bones with my pal, Deb. She wants to see it as badly as I do.
Off to work for me.
Oh, one last thing. In my research thus for of one of the subjects of A Sudden Frost, I came upon this quote. Too accurate:
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. – Frederick Douglas
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