Ramblings from the 'goblinn

Well, the good news is, I have a solid grasp of where my Summer of Giles story needs to go, and how to correct the Point of View mess of the 2nd and 3rd half. Not sure if I can do it in 2 weeks, but I wasn't planning to post the whole novel in one day, anyway.

The bad news is, I reread the first half. (Yeah. hobgoblinn and fractions are very unmixy things. I don't want to talk about it.) Again, the news is mixed. Apparently, I have improved a great deal as a writer in the past 2 years. Or even the past year, which is how long this revised version has been lying about. But oh Lord. I remember this version being much improved over the original, and I think gillo can attest that it is. But I spent a good half hour last night trying to do something to the opening paragraph. Just that. Sigh.

I'm going to split my time between trying to revise the first half and rewrite the second. I think the third is in better shape and will fall in line with a running start from the second.

In other news, this is just about your last chance to vote in the tnl_awards. There's a lot of great fic out there by some wonderful new voices. I personally will not be sorry to lose to the competition I'm up against-- heck, I was among the people who nominated and seconded them in the first place. It has been quite gratifying to get a couple of random comments out of it, from people just now discovering Lost Boys. I think awards are due to close tomorrow (right, angelmischa?) and barring tie breaker voting, should be announced Monday. Something to look forward to.

Unlike wading through the mess of SoG. Better get back to it. Good luck to all on my f-list who are represented among the nominees for the tnl_awards.