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ladynorbertI'm sort of mocking Holmes at the moment. I feel like I'm pacing around in the attic of my brain, stirring up the dust and hoping it will uncover something. My brain actually hurts, and it's entirely possible I will be moving upstairs for a pre-work nap very soon.
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violet_wine was an immensely helpful devil's advocate earlier today, I still feel...jammed, somehow. Yes, we unraveled that one knot in the issues, but something else seems to be bothering me and the worst of it is, I can't indentify the problem.
It's all story-related. That much I do know.
The biggest problem I seem to have is that underneath it all, I've never been terribly convinced of my own ability to write this damn thing. I'm a good writer, I know that. It's pretty much the only thing I have ever done really well. But I'm terribly weak in some places, like plot. My gift has always been -- that quiz result was spot-on -- the narrative, and I fear that I'm doing too much of that. Part of the reason that most of the last chapter was done in dialogue, and Holmes's dialogue at that, was just to see if I could do it.
Just before waking up, I dreamed that I was in a bookstore, and there was a display of books from Calabash Press, a Canadian publishing company which specializes in Sherlockiana and Sherlockian pastiche. My book was not among them, but I had hopes. I worry, though. ASIC is all very well for a bit of fan fiction, but is it actually marketable? If I send it to a publisher at the end of all things, will they decide it's worth printing?
Ah, me. He says it best for both of us.
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violet_wine was an immensely helpful devil's advocate earlier today, I still feel...jammed, somehow. Yes, we unraveled that one knot in the issues, but something else seems to be bothering me and the worst of it is, I can't indentify the problem.It's all story-related. That much I do know.
The biggest problem I seem to have is that underneath it all, I've never been terribly convinced of my own ability to write this damn thing. I'm a good writer, I know that. It's pretty much the only thing I have ever done really well. But I'm terribly weak in some places, like plot. My gift has always been -- that quiz result was spot-on -- the narrative, and I fear that I'm doing too much of that. Part of the reason that most of the last chapter was done in dialogue, and Holmes's dialogue at that, was just to see if I could do it.
Just before waking up, I dreamed that I was in a bookstore, and there was a display of books from Calabash Press, a Canadian publishing company which specializes in Sherlockiana and Sherlockian pastiche. My book was not among them, but I had hopes. I worry, though. ASIC is all very well for a bit of fan fiction, but is it actually marketable? If I send it to a publisher at the end of all things, will they decide it's worth printing?
Ah, me. He says it best for both of us.
I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.
