Week 5 of this six-week revision stretch, and I really need to keep plugging away. Had a good day of work yesterday, but it really is a challenge of writing to stay self-directed. Luckily, I'm still having fun.
The rest of my feedback trickled in from class, and it was once again very helpful. As currently written, my main character Jess seems too mean. I need to make her innocent and nice, not oblivious and condescending. Defining her character has been hard but rewarding.
My peers in class have felt slightly more like a focus group than a workshop, at times. I have gleaned more about how people will react to these topics than how I can improve my craft, but that has been a great experience, too. Besides our teacher, we are somewhat the blind leading the blind, so I'm not sure what I expected.
OK, off to get a few solid hours of work in this morning. I'm approaching some of the sections that will be brand new for this revision or revised in a fundamental way; they will take a lot of thought and time. Here we go!
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