But it's MY story
One sleep to go and then I'm on 6 weeks holiday. Woo hoo.
But I didn't come here to talk about that-- I don't want the few readers I have to leave through jealousy.
No, I have come to talk about EnVision. (www.sf-envision.com I believe-- I would make that into a link if I knew how.)
Envision is five days where a published author attempts to help me with my novel, making it nice and sharp and shiny. My tutor is Tansy Raynor Roberts. She has already read 100 pages of my story and sent an email to me yesterday suggesting that I take along more of the story if I have it because she has some "structural suggestions".
And you see... this worries me. I have about 360,000 words of story written in the structure that , from the evidence I have so far,Tansy doesn't like. 360,000 words. That's a lot of words. I really, really don't want to be making any major structural changes.
And I'm getting defensive as well when I haven't even talked to her about it. I've already caught myself working out the excuses I'll use to say I can't change anything at all.
Ahhh, well. I'll get over it, I'm sure.
On the subjects of money (as in, If I don't at least listen to Tansy I've wasted my money), I have to decide if I will buy a new CD player for my car. It seems to be on permanent eject. Now, normally I could live without a CD player in my car (have been doing it for a while now) or I could just go buy a new one. Not a huge problem either way. But I am just about to take 6 weeks off work and spend it driving around lots of horrible places (like Victoria). Do they have real music in Victoria that I can pick up on the radio? Or do they just have Peter Andre, Shannon Noll and S Club 7? And, if I do go and spend $200 (or whatever) on a new CD player, will I then be caught in the middle of said Victoria with lovely music but no money to buy petrol?
Hmmm... quite a dilemma.
But I didn't come here to talk about that-- I don't want the few readers I have to leave through jealousy.
No, I have come to talk about EnVision. (www.sf-envision.com I believe-- I would make that into a link if I knew how.)
Envision is five days where a published author attempts to help me with my novel, making it nice and sharp and shiny. My tutor is Tansy Raynor Roberts. She has already read 100 pages of my story and sent an email to me yesterday suggesting that I take along more of the story if I have it because she has some "structural suggestions".
And you see... this worries me. I have about 360,000 words of story written in the structure that , from the evidence I have so far,Tansy doesn't like. 360,000 words. That's a lot of words. I really, really don't want to be making any major structural changes.
And I'm getting defensive as well when I haven't even talked to her about it. I've already caught myself working out the excuses I'll use to say I can't change anything at all.
Ahhh, well. I'll get over it, I'm sure.
On the subjects of money (as in, If I don't at least listen to Tansy I've wasted my money), I have to decide if I will buy a new CD player for my car. It seems to be on permanent eject. Now, normally I could live without a CD player in my car (have been doing it for a while now) or I could just go buy a new one. Not a huge problem either way. But I am just about to take 6 weeks off work and spend it driving around lots of horrible places (like Victoria). Do they have real music in Victoria that I can pick up on the radio? Or do they just have Peter Andre, Shannon Noll and S Club 7? And, if I do go and spend $200 (or whatever) on a new CD player, will I then be caught in the middle of said Victoria with lovely music but no money to buy petrol?
Hmmm... quite a dilemma.
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