Comments on: How Long Can You Write A Book With Me?

By: Tamara

Tamara — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:16:28 +0000

Holly,
I am curious about why you want to change your working title. As a person who wanders through bookstores and picks up books based off of a desire to know what the title means, Dreaming the Dead would grab my attention. I get images of zombies, immortals searching for death, researchers studying/reviving dead, etc. I would read the back to see what is the real driver of the title is and if I wanted to know more.

Obviously, I’m looking at your title from a purely reader perspective. I am quite interested to understand the writer perspective with regard to working versus final titles. Is it saleability related? Thanks.
Tamara

By: Sarah Collins

Sarah Collins — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:51:25 +0000

Wow. Guess we’ll all be great friends by the time this is over with! (Or you’ll figure out a way to block me, LOL).

By: Talina

Talina — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:08:16 +0000

I have missed three days due to an extreme clean up on my house. It went as far as needing that honey-do dumpster Holly mention when she moved. When my house is in order I can concentrate better and feel better…sigh.

Now it is time to tackle my work again with a clear mind.

Thanks for showing those numbers Holly. I feel better knowing you and the group will be around for quite some time yet.

I am going to rework my plot and add some scenes I came up with while cleaning.

Happy writing!!!

By: Tori

Tori — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:35:06 +0000

This makes me feel much better knowing that I can actually plan the novel I decide to write and still write it with you. I’m only in Month One in Thinking Sideways and I want to use these tools to finish a novel. So I won’t be starting for awhile.

By: Rabia

Rabia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:30:07 +0000

Holly, thanks so much for doing the math for us. It’s nice to know that that I can come back in the fall and this will still be going on.

By: Cora Zane

Cora Zane — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:51:22 +0000

Regardless of how long it takes to write DTD, Holly, I hope you’ll create a new thread when you start on revisions. Give us an idea of what is going on in that process.

I’ve got a current word goal of 90k at the moment, and as of this morning I’m sitting at roughly 77k. I should finish the draft in the next few weeks, and then I’ll tuck the wip away for about a week. After that, the deconstruction begins.

For me that’s the most fearful part of pulling a story together – the second draft. What if I print it all up and realize it’s awful and I can’t salvage it? *_*

Whew, okay, I’m making myself nervous so I’m going to stop now. Please consider a revisions thread, though, when the time comes.

By: Jamie D.

Jamie D. — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:03:14 +0000

And here I was lamenting missing a couple weeks due to an abnormal stress situation, trying to decide whether to jump back in or not.

Jumping back in…since apparently I have plenty of time…

Thanks!

By: Belle

Belle — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:54:46 +0000

Thanks for doing the math on this. I hope I will have at least one book done by the time you need to re-think this. It is interesting how much this is helping me write. Just the right amount of contact to keep me going.