It happened last pitch-time round, and history's repeating itself. Though I came away from the NB pitch with a "down but not out" attitude, I have yet to make significant strides in my edits. Instead I find myself surfing or reading, anything but writing.
Not good, Hetal. Get on with it.
I think the biggest reason for my change in perseverance is this: I'm not writing to my strengths. I love portraying the artistry of fight scenes, looking up cool weaponry, imagining the fantastical in ordinary places, and twisting the H and h in my web until they cry uncle. Plopping my H and h and in bed for the sake of time doesn't appeal to me one little bit. Even with a shared history - as in the novella I was pitching - my H and h were giving me a hard time about hitting the sack together.
Looking back to every short I've written there is one blatantly obvious trend: I write fantasy more than romance. I've suggested as much to my sisters, my original CPs, and they were pretty on board with my process, except I felt something was lacking in my writing that other fantasy author's nailed.
World building (love Wikipedia). Maybe my imagined venues weren't intricate enough, the locals not flavorful, the paranormal played out...
And then it hit me a couple of days ago. Some of my favorite UF authors manage to thread the unreal through the everyday, connecting two schools of mind with little effort. Yes, I still enjoy getting lost in made up settings, but I am personally more interested in threading what I know with the unimaginable.
Eureka!
So what now? Well, I promised myself that I would send in this NB, so I need to knock it out and send it in by Feb 10th. That's it, I will hold onto it no longer. Then the fun can begin. Two potential fantasies = two new worlds to explore!
~Hetal
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