Ansha Kotyk - Fiction Author

Something a Little Different

Don't worry I'm still working on my book. But I wanted to post a link to my sister's friend's blog.
Martha and Dani have ditched their day jobs and are traveling the world for 6 months. How cool is that? They started in April by traveling the US to visit family. Hey, if you're going to travel the world you had better visit the relatives. They are now in Spain for the next month. Martha is a wonderful writer and her daily blogs are a great read. I highly recommend checking it out. :)
Meanwhile my hubby fantasizes about being able to travel the world.

Labels: Martha and Dani

Progress

Just keeping up the blog and letting you know how Draft #2 of The Book (I renamed it from The Librarian- I took out my librarian character, so the title seemed silly at that point).
As you can see I'm none too creative with my WIP titles.
That's okay, i can focus on that later.
Right now I'm happy to say I'm over 8,000 words on Draft #2 of what will probably exceed 50k. I'm pretty happy with that.
This second draft is definitely taking longer to add word count to. But I'm finding that I'm focusing on different aspects as I write it. Theme is a big one that I've been working on.
I think the theme of this story is: A boy trapped between worlds: the world between the comic book and the real world, and the world of the child he was and the world of the adult he is learning to become.

Okay so its passive phrasing. I'll have to rewrite it for clarity later. But you get the picture, external theme and internal theme linked. I like it. it took a while to come to this.
I kept focusing on my hero overcoming issues in his daily life, like the bully or his relationship with his dad. And then today it hit me that all of this is interrelated. I had been drawing arrows to it in my writing over and over. The adults in his life tell him he needs to grow up and behave like an adult and at the same time they continue to force him to play the child.
I find this theme fascinating because its something that we all go through during adolescence. The struggle between childhood and adulthood and the trauma that it causes in our lives.
So anyway, this is what my story is about. I hope I do it justice. (eh, positive thinking, I will do it justice with my current skill set... 10 years from now I'll read it and shake my head. ;)
Okay folks, I'm off to read and write!
Later.

Epiphany

So I had an epiphany the other day.
Here's some background. My current WIP has been floundering. or at least i thought it was floundering. It really wasn't. I had simply finished my first draft. And it was what all first drafts should be, a pile of crap. BUT, importantly it was a pile of crap with some really good points. Its like creating a map of an island by feel. Its just not pretty. No nice aerial shots, its rough, its bumpy and its sure has areas where it just doesn't make sense.
The epiphany happened when I visited an author's website. She described her method of writing. Multiple drafts. As in starting over with Draft #2.
That's when the epiphany hit me. I didn't need to edit Draft #1 (thank god). I simply needed to start Draft #2. So there it is, simple but profound.
I'm now starting Draft #2 of The Book. I'm about 1500 words into it. I'm working on getting my groove back. I'll get there. With lots of hard work.