#falling back in love with my book

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Day 2 of falling back in love with my book

Question of the day: Should I restructure?

If you missed part one, my book had been rejected by everyone I submitted it to and I had to take a break from writing it for a while because it was a very draining process but via writing in a pressure-free environment (mostly tumblr and ao3) I feel that I've improved my writing greatly and I want to edit, hone, and rework my book until it's the best version of itself it can be and is ready to be shared with the world.

So, on restructuring: I'm starting to think that the outline of my book needs to be completely redone, keeping the flesh of most scenes but in different orders or in a new format, so I'm experimenting with possible new/slightly twisted versions of the premise that practically feel like au's and is very interesting to think about. Today I'm planning on watching some videos about writing openers and considering what about my current opener I do and don't like, hoping that it will lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole to either rework the opener I have with the current version of the premise or write some different options for twisted versions of the current premise and decide which one I want to be taking onwards.

I'm having a teensy dilemma over POV because the entire book is written in first person but all of my other creative writing projects (meaning fics and other original works in progress) are in third person and I've gotten a lot more comfortable writing that way than I have in first; it's making me wonder I should rewrite the entire (99k word) story in third person instead and even though I know I need to do a lot of rewriting anyway that is a daunting prospect. I don't think that I should, particularly because it's a retrospective narrative and as I've written it currently is the transcription of voice recordings made by the main character, but there's a little voice in my head saying 'ohhhh wouldn't it be so much better that way though?'. But I think I'm going to stick with the first person, unless when I start getting into it I realise that it's definitely not the right way for this story to be told.

Feel free to ask any writing related question you'd like to, including any industry ones I can do my best to answer them or direct you to good sources :)

[nottenebia]

Yaaaaay happy birthday to Mabel and Dipper!!! Weird to learn that we're the same age tho ahahah

[doctorsiren]

Thinking about how (a humanoid) Bill would see Ford be older after those 30 years (because that’s how people work), and so to try and appeal to him again, he makes himself look older too (I mean, he’s WAYYYY older than Ford actually, but I just mean visually)

But then after he’s killed and sent to the Theraprism, he goes back to his original twink look, and I say this because I already did a drawing of my humanoid Bill in prison and I like how that design worked with his pathetic traumatized orange jumpsuit look more than I think I would like it with an older looking version 😁 plus uhh I don’t wanna deem that drawing “not canon” to my brain so yeah

[this-box-is-empty]

getting ready for a date with fordsy!!!! (ie chaining him down and singing to him)

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 4: Haunted

[fizpup]

what year is it

[bred-is-a-dumb-name]

Also some seasonal pfps I made for my sibling my partner and I :)))

(You're allowed to use them too if you want, just credit me <3)

[thriftybruce]

experimenting with a different brush/warm up

[sceebybeeby]

⚠️the book of bill spoils, blood⚠️

"Hey, brother, it's Sixer."

[ink-for-dinner]

Here's a representation of how I feel about Gravity Falls being so popular again

[skipblebee]

HIII I returned to tumblr bc my bestie told me I had to post this. Billford basically being canon now is crazy dude

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Day 4 of falling back in love with my book

I did nothing yesterday and I won't have loads of time today because I'm busy with exams and other stuff but I wanted to get at least something done

Question of the day: Should I come up with a new plan?

Okay so I'm still very much planning to completely redo my opening, at minimum the first chapter, because currently it starts with a dream sequence and I'm so aware that probably wasn't the best decision, but I'm actually now thinking that I went into this without a real plan and that I should be going back to basics. So here's the new plan:

Create a brand new planning document, ban myself from looking at any of my other planning documents (there's an unreasonable number of them), separate the document into sections and work on each section individually. So I'm going to split my planning document into Characters, Worldbuilding, Settings, Important Objects, Plot, and any that I happen to think of as I go. I've done two exams today and would also like to write another fic chapter to publish this evening if possible, so I'm going to give myself a one hour timer to absolutely go for it and see how I feel timewise after that, I might carry on or I might switch to my fic (or I might just take a break bc this is a lot) and today I'm going to start with Characters. Back in one hour! :)

Okay so my timer has just gone off and OH MY GOODNESS I feel so excited about this!! I wrote 1466 words of character profiles basically just listing every random piece of information about them that I could and in the process of that managed to do massive work with moving around some of the clunky details from the start of the book and I am so pleased!! I got 4 character profiles written but the biggest issue, and one that I pretty much knew was coming, is that the main character's profile is by far the smallest of the 4. I have six main characters but I think I might be cutting/reducing the role of at least one of them because they don't really impact the story, but there is only one POV character (except The Editor) and she is unfortunately the most complex to craft the backstory and initial position of in the world so I'm very aware that there's more work to do there. As in-the-zone as I am right now I do have some other stuff to get done today and as I said I'm hoping to write a fic chapter later as well, but I think it's probably a good thing to pause whilst I'm still excited because then the ideas and motivation will come easier next time.

EDIT: Partway through I also realised that I needed to add a new section, Species, and will be coming back to that later

Always open to questions if anyone has any :)

[cloudysarts]

🤞

[solar-bean]

Darn these old men and their interesting, toxic drama!!!

[pepperpixel]

Initial drawings of that old man… I literally, I haven’t finished reading the book of bill yet!!! I had to stop and take a break for a week to feverishly draw fanart of myself petting fords floofy hair and giving him attention and shit…!!!! The urge was too great….!! I’ve literally. I had a crush on this guy the instant he was first REVEALED in the show, but I did not have the artistic prowess to draw good looking old men back then… but I do now… thank god… thank fucking god

[eelclaw]

stupid fucking bastard. i am not coping with the leaks