Every room can be a stage, so let the audience in.

This blog is dedicated to my writing endeavors. I will attempt to give updates on the status of my various projects and, hopefully, motivate myself to make steady progress. My primary project is a novel: Names Have Been Changed, my secondary novels are La Madrastra: or I Knew Cinderella and Untitled Fantasy Novel. My biggest obstacle in finishing any one of these books is myself. My goal is to have Names Have Been Changed finished by Christmas and the other two before the end of 2011. I hope to have an agent by the end of 2011 and to sending my books off to publishers as soon as possible. I've always known I was going to be a novelist, it's time to make it happen. Thanks for the support.
~*Lauren M. Danhof

Friday, July 23, 2010

I'm working on Names Have Been Changed today and, again, I feel extremely frustrated with my organization. I have a superb beginning and a sketchy idea for an ending. Along the way, I have episodes, some better than others, but the overall fluidity of the book is lacking. I often feel like I am rushing through parts to get to a "good part" of the story. As Kermit so patiently explains to Cookie Monster, every book must have a beginning, middle, and end. It's just, sometimes I feel like there's a Cookie Monster in my subconscious that wants to rip up and destroy the slow, steady progress I've made to get to that glorious, cookie ending. I have got to learn to slow down and enjoy the entire process. After all, if I'm bored with a single page of this story, then my readers undoubtedly will be. Argh! I have a lot of rewriting to do.

“Wow. Son of gun. You learn something new every day.”


Names Have Been Changed:
156 pages
37, 654 words
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