The mad raving and reviews of Author Deliaria Davis.
Well, I have been hard at work revising Mistress of the Vampires, Book One, to make everyone happy! One big complaint was people wanted to know how Amelia’s parents died and got turned into zombies. Well I decided to give you a little spoiler. The description of the monster that does all the damage. Enjoy!
So I started looking back over ‘Snowed In’ again. The first chapter which is sitting at 9170 words pre-edit. I’ve been trying to find a natural break. Because lets face it, that is a long ass chapter. I wanted to break it up. Well, a decent number of people read it… One thing stands out. They all hate the flashback. Okay, okay. Fine. You hate it, I get it. Read through it. Okay. I see. I get it.
So, I highlight it all, 1700… 1800 words something like that. And I do the one thing that is hard for a lot of authors. I hit delete. I held my breath. I closed my eyes.
I HIT DELETE.
Because enough people told me they didn’t like that scene. Either it was to long, or it had weird stuff going on. There were to many things wrong with that scene. So I did the rational thing.
I got rid of it.
I edited it out of the chapter.
Because it wasn’t needed. I didn’t need it. It wasn’t necessary.
And you know what. I’m okay. Because I know that I can get what I got through there, somewhere else. And that it will work just the same in either place. And for the naysayers. He was a dick then, now, will be forever. And yes that is a clichè that I do enjoy.
Okay so the last couple days here have been hell. Literal hell. The neighbors have been driving me nuts. I have LITERALLY been calling it #neighbororgy. I don’t have a FUCKING clue what they are doing, but whatever it is they are not letting me write, because of THE FUCKING POUNDING! Drumming…. Fuck if I even know what they are doing. Yes, they have OFFICIALLY brought out the potty mouthed big bad asshole in me.
And you know what? I don’t know if that is actually a bad thing. Or a good thing. I know that when I can write it will be a good thing. But until then I guess I will vent it all here. Because I know that having an insane amount of excess energy and anger when you start writing certain things, will not be good for your characters. OR for you.
Thats right Your writing suffers. You suffer. EVERY FUCKING THING SUFFERS! EVERYTHING! EVERYONE! Breathe girl breathe. I promise, I’m not a psychopath. I just really have some strong emotions. About things. Weird things.
Coffee. My kids. My husband. My cats. Music. Yeah. I know. I know. Its bedtime. Good night world.
Everything is on my mind and nothing is on my mind. I have characters yelling at me to write, and characters telling me to take the night off. I am revising a book, I am editing 2 more books and writing the second book to the book I am revising. Busy year, and its not even over. So do I get a break? Or do I keep writing? I deserve a break to let them settle down and figure out what they are saying. Or trying to ramble about. Or think they are rambling about. Or something like that… Right?