So, Mesopotamia

by Jenny | Divine Thoughts | October 22nd, 2007 |

You know, we had an amazingly productive week.  We decided to scrap our previous opening and make some major changes, I’m getting a much better grip on Shar, we worked out the plot through to the mid turning point which is about 55,000 words, conveniently divided among us all, and we ate a lot.

I’m not sure why things always go faster when we’re together.  It goes faster when I write with Bob, too.   Something about being together makes your synapses fire faster, I think.   There were a lot of, “Oooh, ooooh, we could . . . “  moments coupled with a lot of streamlining–I gave up Pia without a backward glance and Milki with a sense of real loss–and a lot of fusing of plot lines that came naturally as we reworked the plot.

Now all we have to do is WRITE it.   But I’m jazzed.

10 Comments so far

  1. Sheryl October 22nd, 2007 9:20 pm

    Welcome back! You were missed.

  2. DownUnderGal October 23rd, 2007 8:29 am

    I second that Sheryl

  3. cary October 23rd, 2007 10:24 am

    Poor Pia! She’ll be just crushed. (Until she finds that last bottle of champagne and the leftover caviar…)

  4. Carol October 23rd, 2007 3:30 pm

    Who’s Milki?

  5. Jenny October 23rd, 2007 11:37 pm

    Milki was Sam’s uncle and Kami’s nemesis.
    We had a zillion characters and I loved them all.

  6. Kira October 25th, 2007 4:58 am

    Good, you’ll have some leftover characters, you can use them to write more books.

  7. Lou October 25th, 2007 6:11 pm

    Kira - Good thinking!!

  8. Jamie H October 25th, 2007 11:44 pm

    And you thought you were joking about Cats & Caricatures and Pharoahs & Ferrets…

  9. inkgrrl October 29th, 2007 11:14 am

    You can bounce off each other in person and all that energy from the pancakes and chocolate gets channeled and shared between you and your Muses - yay Mesopotamia!

  10. Diane L. November 3rd, 2007 12:43 pm

    Giving up Pia was probably for the best, she’s more of a star than a supporting character anyway. Perhaps she’ll have her own book later.

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