Nothing like a deadline to light a fire under oneself. I really want to have this second draft done by the end of next week. Match stuff has sort of thrown a wrench in my schedule, but I can salvage it.
I'm feeling sheepish about showing it to anyone before I've gotten it as good as I can possibly get it. I don't want to reveal this second draft, necessarily, because I still know I can improve it. We'll see.
Anyway, on a good roll this morning. I can see the light at the end of Act 2, and it's motivating. Declan has just appeared. I feel like I am hitting all of the structural sign posts well.
The pages I submitted to my class have Jess as very exasperated, irritable, not very nice, hrumphy, eye rolly, etc. I want to change her to INNOCENT and nice. I'm realizing how much she is going to parallel the arc of my favorite character ever, Annie Hall. From a Chippewa Falls girl saying "la dee da" to a savvy LA recording artist. Jess will go from a woman sheltered by academia and a relationship to an expat researcher. Horizons broadened and all that.
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