Today I completed the re-reading/editing of the first 12 chapters of Conscience. It reads well, almost like someone else's book. It doesn't seem as "me" as TRF - which is as it should be. I feel really happy. I see that I need more research - and probably soon, so I must book a seat at the Imperial War Museum Library to read some regimental history.
Anyway, I now have 48,000 words - and a convincing story - and I need to get on with it. I am going to try to experiment with a new strategy. To write every morning from about 9ish to 1.00ish - then lunch, a little light domestic work, and then reading/research in the afternoon. I will have to start inviting people for tea rather than coffee in the afternoon to keep my mornings free.
Curiously, I think writing the sex scenes in the new version of TRF will help me deal with the dreaded topic of the unsuccessful consummation. But first I have to decide when his father should die - just after the wedding perhaps? Or keep him ill, but alive? Don't want that to become an issue.
Anyway, I now have 48,000 words - and a convincing story - and I need to get on with it. I am going to try to experiment with a new strategy. To write every morning from about 9ish to 1.00ish - then lunch, a little light domestic work, and then reading/research in the afternoon. I will have to start inviting people for tea rather than coffee in the afternoon to keep my mornings free.
Curiously, I think writing the sex scenes in the new version of TRF will help me deal with the dreaded topic of the unsuccessful consummation. But first I have to decide when his father should die - just after the wedding perhaps? Or keep him ill, but alive? Don't want that to become an issue.
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