Tayari's Blog: I Won't Be Going With You, Derek!
Posted by TayariJones on January 22, 2010 07:27 AM
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You all are probably wondering what the heck happened to that novel I was writing that I used to blog about all the time. Well, today I am diving back in, working to get to ready to submit to my editor. My mind has sort of moved on to a new project. (I can't talk about it yet, don't want to jinx it!).
When I was working hard generating The Silver Girl, I would dream about the characters. Even when I was stuck in my own personal drama and not really writing, they girls-- Dana and Chaurisse-- would cross my mind. I haven't dreamed about those girls and their mamas in a long time. But still, edits must be done and they must be done with as much passion as the initial writing. As I add trasitions, I don't want it to seem like I am writing the new part in #2 pencil when the rest of the manuscript in written with a glitter gel pen. (You know what I mean?)
All of this is to say that I am going underground. I've gotten this cold/flu/cooties whatever under control with antibiotics so there is nothing stopping me from total immersion in the manuscript. This will be a three-day slam. No blogging until Monday. No happy-houring. FOCUS.
I think I have told this little story before. But my mentor, Ron, used to say that the writer is the person who doesn't leave the room. He says that when good times and fun come a-calling, the writer says, "I won't be going with you, Derek!" That always tickled me. I should get it on a tattoo.
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I hope the three-day slam goes well and that your muse will be by your side all the time.
January 25, 2010 05:01 PM