Though personally I hate whales

[naomi_jay]

So I've recovered enough from watching Mega-Shark v Giant Octopus (except I dreamed about it all last night and haven't stopped thinking about it all morning) and now I've realised that I need to add a new subplot into Death for the Born. This is highly inconvenient given that it's out on submission and I'm still waiting to hear back from two agents with partials.

I guess if everyone rejects it, I can add in the new subplot and start over, but if everyone rejects it, is there any point? And I've learned from the epic mess of an ongoing rewrite that is Wild that adding in new subplots drives me mad. Grr. This is why I need to be working part-time. If I had more writing time, messy rewrites wouldn't annoy me so much because I wouldn't feel like I was cramming everything in around my damnable day job. I'd feel like I was cramming the day job in around my writing. Which would be much nicer.

Comments

[sanguinepen.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, sweetie. Adding in the new Lily's not just a floozy parts is taking me forever. It's all worth it though.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I keep telling myself it's all worth it... But I think suffering for the sake of art went out with Van Gogh.

[space-frog.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel about the day job vs writing. I am taking a week's holiday right now to see how much I can do if I try to write full-time.

(This is John from CWIL btw.)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do that... No chance for the next few weeks though. I have written nearly 3000 words this evening, mind, so I can feel a little smug now.

[(Anonymous)]

Damn...I can't even write that much when I take the whole day. I guess I need to write more.

[etaknosnhoj.livejournal.com]

I guess if everyone rejects it, I can add in the new subplot and start over, but if everyone rejects it, is there any point?

The subplot might be the very thing that's missing.

Or maybe you'll get so many requests you'll realise it's perfect without it!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Or maybe you'll get so many requests you'll realise it's perfect without it!

Fingers crossed! A few places are yet to get back to me, so maybe I'll be inundated with demands any minute now...

*goes to check emails for 100th time today*