IWSG is posted the first Wednesday of every month, but I'm posting early this month. Explanation is below with my writing goals. It is the brain child of Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh. Get your fears and insecurities out or give words of encouragement. We're writers, let's support each other!
The awesome co-hosts for this month are Tamara Narayan, Patsy Collins, M.J. Fifield, and Nicohle Christopherson!
So, I had a release last month, so my insecurity is related to that. Release week went well and I had some nice sales, but now I'm worried I won't be able to keep up the momentum. Especially since I'm not sure how without going broke. I don't expect overnight best seller status and I know it takes time, but I'm impatient and, like many writers, suck at marketing.
March 1st question is: Have you ever pulled out a really old story and reworked it? Did it work out?
Yes, I have. I have an older story called Leaves of Fall and it's about a girl who gets abducted by bandits in an apocalyptic world and meets a boy who offers to help, but he turns out not to be human, but the thing that helped destroy the human world. I rewrote it line by line, but there were too many weak plot points and a few holes that, at the time, I wasn't able to fix. I'd still like to go back to it and give it another look because I still like the idea and maybe now that I'm more experienced at writing I can patch up those holes.
21 Comments
3/1/2017 07:18:24 am
Hi Patricia, 3/1/2017 07:25:07 am
Ooh! What an awesome concept. I hope you do rework it and get it to a happy place one day because I'd love to read it. =) 3/1/2017 08:22:29 am
Feel free to brainstorm with me whenever you wish! :) I know that feeling about new releases. Marketing causes me so much stress. 3/1/2017 08:25:38 am
I had similar post-book release blues after my first book (well, all right, only book...) came out. Still have no solutions for it, though, apart from writing another book, which you seem able to do quite nicely. 3/1/2017 08:44:45 am
Just play around with it for a while. When the inspiration hits, you'll get all charged up and you won't be able to stop working on it. Good luck. 3/1/2017 09:25:48 am
Sometimes it's better to start with an outline. Weak points and plot holes can be repaired when the big-picture is clear. :-) 3/1/2017 09:40:21 am
Give yourself more credit and tackle that story. You can fix it. 3/1/2017 10:00:46 am
Congratulations on the release! 3/1/2017 10:27:15 am
Congratulations on your new release and good luck with your marketing. I suck at it too. Never have figured out the magic formula. Suppose I should sit down and come up with a plan. Bleh. 3/1/2017 12:53:39 pm
I hear you about not wanting to go broke promoting your book. Me, I'm branching out. More about that soon as I'm not quite ready to release the details. good luck with everything! 3/1/2017 01:14:23 pm
It's so fun to do a radical rewrite and restructuring of an old story. It's very challenging and tiresome as well, but the payoff is so much sweeter because we had to work so hard to get to that polished final stage. 3/1/2017 01:42:54 pm
Oh my gosh! You need to write Leaves of Fall! I'm intrigued!!!! :D The premise sounds very good. You already have an inherent conflict - two people on opposite sides in a war. Great! Plus, you have an unusual setting. I don't know what your main conflict is. If it's escaping from & being chased by bandits, that's not really strong enough. There should be an overarching goal, the protags must get X to save the world. Then you add a ticking clock and you're good to go! Good luck! 3/2/2017 10:22:57 am
Hi Patricia! Don't forget to give yourself time to smell the flowers! 3/3/2017 01:34:38 pm
Congrats on your new release! That story you'd like to get back to one day sounds intriguing. 3/4/2017 08:07:21 pm
I feel your new release pain! I came home from Cuba to discover my publisher had put my book up for sale while I was gone, with no warning, no marketing, no early reviews, nothing. I've been scrambling ever since. 3/7/2017 03:16:55 am
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