In my opening remarks I said that when I sat down to write a novel it was a completely different story. These characters came to me and asked that I write theirs instead. Since then they have become my "imaginary" friends and we've spent a lot of time together.
I was doing a rough calculation based on the computer word count. Now just the way I have chapters saved, etc. this is not 100% accurate. That is why it is a rough calculation.
If each chapter is approx. 30,000 words and I have 15 chapters,...that makes 450,000 words so far. I am guessing that I have one more,...maybe two chapters left and then an epilogue. For most of this first rewrite I have kept pretty close to the original, changing only minor things. There has been a lot added in dealing with the earliest phase of the story but the main has basically been complete. This "back to the present" section of the story I have done a lot of editing,...sorry guys. My "friends" talk too much! I think there were parts that were getting repetitive, perhaps the information was covered better somewhere else,...or it really wasn't necessary. In a way it was a case of "Get on with It!" I hope this editing will move the story along at a better pace toward the conclusion.
Anyway,...as I am not a professional writer, I'm not sure what publishers will think of such a wordy apical. I'll worry about that once I get to that stage of the project!
Saturday 28 January 2012
Thursday 12 January 2012
Story Fun
One of the fun things about this story is trying to imagine the characters and the music they would play, what it would sound like. Just crusing through Youtube I came across a very young version of "Gette Kozak" playing the guitar in her room.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuX2VFSBOHM&feature=related
Now if they every made a movie of this story,...ha, ha, ha, I'd have to try and find out who this really is!
What is really ironic is that I have been using this photo of an unknown(to me) Hungarian Model as my,...model for Gette. The guitar playing girl is very similar.
Maybe over the next little while I'll add photos of the faces I used to picture my characters as I wrote.
Writing wise,...I have finish a major part of the story or have it saved and pages printed anyway. The "back to the present" part remains to be rewritten and saved so there is still a lot of work to do. In a way it is kind of sad to see another section of this story come to a close. I like these "imaginary friends" of mine and I like their story. I just wish they'd picked a better writer,...I do have to look forward to actually reading it from end to end for the first time and adding more finishing touches. We'll I better not "hang about" here then!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuX2VFSBOHM&feature=related
Now if they every made a movie of this story,...ha, ha, ha, I'd have to try and find out who this really is!
What is really ironic is that I have been using this photo of an unknown(to me) Hungarian Model as my,...model for Gette. The guitar playing girl is very similar.
Maybe over the next little while I'll add photos of the faces I used to picture my characters as I wrote.
Writing wise,...I have finish a major part of the story or have it saved and pages printed anyway. The "back to the present" part remains to be rewritten and saved so there is still a lot of work to do. In a way it is kind of sad to see another section of this story come to a close. I like these "imaginary friends" of mine and I like their story. I just wish they'd picked a better writer,...I do have to look forward to actually reading it from end to end for the first time and adding more finishing touches. We'll I better not "hang about" here then!
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