In which I did something I may regret...
Sorry,
Got about 7000 words into the NaNo story, and just couldn't get up the energy to go the distance. Lots of excuses, both good and bad, but the upshot is I just couldn't force myself this year.
Anyway, I did something I already regret. I went and entered Miss Snark's hook crapometer. I used a story I've been working on for ages, so I knew the plot and have a decent opening for. Though if it makes the cut, I may pick a slightly later opening and modify it a tad so I'm starting with the real action. I know what Miss Snark thinks of prologues ;).
Anyway, as I'm reading her comments on other hooks, I'm already building up the list of things I wish I'd done. Understand, now, that I decided to enter about an hour before the crapometer opened, and took about 2 hours to write the hook. Other folks have been working on theirs for weeks. I think it's got a shot sometimes, and then I start agonizing about stuff like was it specific enough, was it hooky enough, etc. Chewing nails. I'm not even sure why. I don't know that I'd ever really shop this story around. I desperately wanted to try to write a hook, though. I had this cocky idea I'd be good at it or something. Now, well, I'd be happy just not to be totally embarrassed....
Got about 7000 words into the NaNo story, and just couldn't get up the energy to go the distance. Lots of excuses, both good and bad, but the upshot is I just couldn't force myself this year.
Anyway, I did something I already regret. I went and entered Miss Snark's hook crapometer. I used a story I've been working on for ages, so I knew the plot and have a decent opening for. Though if it makes the cut, I may pick a slightly later opening and modify it a tad so I'm starting with the real action. I know what Miss Snark thinks of prologues ;).
Anyway, as I'm reading her comments on other hooks, I'm already building up the list of things I wish I'd done. Understand, now, that I decided to enter about an hour before the crapometer opened, and took about 2 hours to write the hook. Other folks have been working on theirs for weeks. I think it's got a shot sometimes, and then I start agonizing about stuff like was it specific enough, was it hooky enough, etc. Chewing nails. I'm not even sure why. I don't know that I'd ever really shop this story around. I desperately wanted to try to write a hook, though. I had this cocky idea I'd be good at it or something. Now, well, I'd be happy just not to be totally embarrassed....
posted by BlogShy | 8:36 PM
1 Comments:
I think a lot of them are way overthinking this. They're putting everything into it and will be shattered when she snarks at them.
All I did was edit a little to fit the word count and get my 750 ready just in case. If she loves it, great. If not, my world isn't over.
In any case -- yay you!
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