FINALLY!

No, I'm not done with the editing, but I've finally figured out the genre of my book: scifi/fantasy. I have been struggling with it, whether it was horror, or if it was scifi/fantasy. Well, there's not enough death to make it horror...or at least blood for my taste, but it's enough to make it something out of just the plain old general fiction category. It's a fictional tale, yes, but I just didn't know how to describe it to people who would ask "So, what's it like? SciFi, Fantasy, Horror?" I would just like to say "Yes" to all of the above, people! Anyway, I'm just going to put it into that category. And just watch, people are going to say it's nothing like that, it's more of a drama! No, I wouldn't go that far, but you get the point, right? Anyway, just glad I finally found a "place" for it.

Still editing

Well, I'm still in he process of editing. So far, so good. I'm a little less afraid of what I've written so far, and I've been looking around at publishing companies, and I still may just go with a group I was told about a while back called Author House. I think I may just go with them. But for now, it's back to editing and making sure what I have makes sense. Again, so far, so good.

And while I was editing, I had time to make a little change...to the hair! Gotta go with a new do for the new year...especially since I will probably be doing some publicity photos for the book. Gotta look good!

And the editing begins!

Okay, so I've started the editing process, and as I'm doing it, I am finding that I was jumping all over the place with this thing. Sure, I stayed on track with the plot, but names? I had the poor villain with three different names, when all I wanted was one. Why couldn't I just keep one name for this guy? Funny! And then some other characters, I made him a her, and back to a him again, only to be a her in the end. She was originally a her, but I thought may be I should change it. Then again, the event that occurred in the story would be better with the character being a he. So a he he will remain!

Other than that, so far so good. This story is really crazy. Some of the things that are running through my head while I'm editing?

1) Has this story been told before? I worry if this book sounds too much like some of the movies that are out there. So many books and movies are all blending together, it is kind of hard not to piggy back off of each other. But I made sure that this book will be my own. I have some influences, but nothing that will make people go "Hey! That happened in such-and-such's book!" Trust me, it's mine.

2) What in the world was this woman smoking when she wrote this? I wasn't smoking anything when I started this book. Actually, it started off as another completely different story, derived from something I wrote back in high school, but it quickly changed when I was hanging out with one of my friends, who unfortunately passed away back in 2000. The story was originally going to be based off of a caricature of him, but it took a completely different route. Grant it there will be the original book made later. I'm working on it, but this one had to come out first.

3) Will this be good enough for people to enjoy? Honestly, I don't give two rats patooies! I'm kidding. I hope people would like it enough to read it. I just was so glad to get the idea out of my head. I have too much up there right now! And not enough hair.

Well, that's about all for now. I need to head to run some errands...get some material for a dress that I've been putting off making for a few weeks. It's time to get some inspiration!