Last week I wrote the first draft for my next book. Did it fast and chaotic. My first drafts are more like messy 50 page outlines with a lot of notes like "Describe this character later" or "Research this" or "What did he actually say?" After that I spend the next year pulling it down and building it back up again. (The first drafts are insane and unreadable and would make no sense to anyone else.)
This book is the final novel in the "Home and Away Quartet" that began with After Tonight, Everything Will Be Different and continued with The Internet Newspaper and I Wish to Say Lovely Things.
Now I'm taking off the rest of the month to forget the story and come at it fresh on January 5th (International Adventure Day as created by Jessie Duke). Time to let the subconscious do its job.
This is my reading list of things that are very far away from what I'm writing so I'm able to forget and distance myself.
December Reading List
Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset (Elizabeth gave me these. Hey
A Time for Everything by Karl Ove Knausgaard (notice with these last two I'm thinking of my Norwegian ancestry)
Liveblog by Megan Boyle (been working through this for years, taking it in small doses)
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (sort of the same as above, these two make sense together)
Selected Works by Lord Byron (I'm not recommending this to you, but I like it)
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre by Goethe (recommending this)
long live kristin!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're gonna love liveblog!!!!