So, going back to edit I'm finding certain things...sentences and dialogue that I have been able to only stare at. The thought process being "I didn't write that...I don't remember writing that..." Guess that's what happens when you take so many breaks. Yeah, a lot is getting shifted and jilted around to make things sound less....dictioned. I know, that's not a real world. It is now, I have deemed it so.
So, I scrapped the six or seven pages I started of book two because I think I'm going to go a whole other direction with the end of this book. I've decided I don't know enough about that area of the world to write a village setting for more than a half page. Thankfully most of my major scenes take place in the forest. And since I don't have money to zip off to Romania or Hungary and you can't get a feel for how a village sounds and feels from books...I'm going with areas I know more about.
Which unfortunately reeeeally localizes me. And I hate that. I want to be able to write my novel where I want to write it...and before you ask NO, I am not making it up. Being the anal ass I am, I can't just make up what I think Romanian villages are like. I know its fiction but I can't, with a clear conscience, do that. It's bad enough I stand a great risk of excommunication (which doesn't really bother me.) I don't want to have my poster in every Slavic country as "heretic" and "liar". As Petra would say "I like breathing."
I also don't want to be Bram Stoker. Romanians HATED him for turning their national hero into a monster. Oh yes, they absolutely hated him. I think they still do to this day. No No. I don't want a hole country hating me. (The papacy is fine though. ha...twisted right?)
Anyway, I'm off to west milford for some creepy inspiration and woods gallavanting. Hopefully by the end f this week I will be done with the initial edits.
Tanks for the comments guys! Love you both. Haha Gen, yes...I think Paranormal Noir is perfect. Oh! how about...like..."Heretical Paranormal Urban Fantasy"? ahhh...good times.
Until next time kiddies.
....how Cryptkeeper...
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Go Toni, go!
You can do et! Edit like the wind, m'dear!
Also: Dude, if you really want to set book 2 in a Romanian village, and are worried about getting details straight -- maybe you could try making a post on some forums? (IE, the NaNo forums?) You might be able to find someone who's visited such a place, or has at least done research on such, etc.
Also: ILU. I wish my novel had subject matter that could get me excommunicated. ...Of course, I'd have to have had a communion in the first place, but still. Y'know.
Going now. Hope the editing/writing is going spiffily!
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