So, I was thinking.

[valis2]

I started writing a romance novel ages ago. Ages upon ages. Unfortunately, it suffered from the Page 36 Curse, which meant that, like many other stories I used to write (er, before I discovered fandom), once I reached page 36 it was too much work to revise continually, yet I could not continue until it was revised. So I stopped writing it.

Anyway, I was thinking about rereading it, and then I was thinking about how there were a couple of good passages in it and also a lot of not-so-good passages. And then I thought, it might be nice to reread it with my current writer's eye and see what jumps out at me as being bad writing. Also, what jumps out at me as being good writing. And see what I've learned. Or, not learned, as the case may be. Then I thought, hmmm, it will never be published, so I might as well share this fun with the flist, right? In fact, knowing me, I'll end up mocking myself, and that could be funny. Of course, this would be a bit of work--it's 36 pages, typed, and it will be a bitch to retype it, as I found when I shared all that floating cat stuff a few years ago.

So what do you think, flist? Do you want to read my (probably awful) romance novel from ten years ago, with writerly commentary and sarcastic comments?

ETA: Wow, it's only 16k long. *boggles* In my head it was such a looong story...lol. PS: I am not going to revise it or finish it, just use it as an editing experience. I will definitely type out a summary of what I remember of the ending, though.

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I've gone from 6000 word days down to 60 word days right now. This week I've been so damned tired! It took me three days to write a teeny not-very-important 300 word scene, I swear.

So it's a nice change of pace to transcribe this old story. I'm intrigued by the mistakes, seriously. It's kind of like looking at a time machine of myself and my writing at the time.