I have an idea!

So, while I was lying in bed last night, waiting to fall asleep, a light bulb switched on. Now, I'm not talking about a real lightbulb - I'm talking about one in my brain. A metaphorical lightbulb, if you like. And now that lightbulb has turned itself on, it won't go off again. This idea will not leave my mind, so, I'm thinking that maybe I should go with it.

Here's the idea. In November last year, I wrote a novel. I personally think it's kind of boring, but maybe that's just cause it's my writing. I leant my copy of this novel to my friend, who kindly read it, and had a few comments to make.
Number 1 comment was that she loved it. She said she really enjoyed it. I guess that's the best thing anyone could say. She also said my descriptions are beautifully written.
Now for the creative criticism. She said she didn't think it was long enough (I only aimed for 50,000 words, only wrote about 1000 more than that) which is a very fair point. She also said that I didn't get into all of my character's heads enough.
And when she said that, I completely agreed.

It's one of the things I find difficult with writing. I know my character's so well, because I came up with them - they live in my head. But I need to push harder to get my character's across to other people. I know them well, but the people reading about them obviously don't!

So we had a chat about the novel, and I couldn't stop trying to work out what I could do to improve. And then in bed last night, it hit me.
A word that I was dreading was going to force itself upon me.

Rewrite.

And not even just rewriting a certain chapter, or just adding a bit in. I mean a whole rewrite. All of it. Every single part.

And not even just a rewrite to improve it. No, my brain - thinking it's clever - had an even better idea than that.

A rewrite where I use the same characters, same plot - but different settings and a different time period.
Thank you so much brain!

But now, the more I think about rewriting the novel differently, the more I think that it's a good idea. The more I fall in love with the idea even. It'd be a much better way to get into my character's heads, strengthen my plot... Everything.

No idea when to actually start, but I'm considering doing it for CampNaNo. Who knows?

Day I'm not 100% sure what: WriYe is harder than I thought.

Yes, no blog since March - I'm very very bad at keeping this!

I don't know what day this is meant to be, and I don't dare to open my spreadsheet and look. I'm scared of the amount of red days that'll be on there, and how far I'm actually behind on my writing.
So, here's the deal.
I've decided that instead of counting the number of words - something which really stresses me out, cause I always seem to keep one eye on the word count and one eye on what I'm writing (a habit I seem to have now dropped, thank goodness!) I'm going to work by finishing novels instead.

So, by the end of this year (there's 6 months left of it!) I am aiming to have finished 3 or possibly 4 novels.
I am currently writing one which is closer to being finished than anything else at the moment. (Because I have to look) it's just over the 40,000 word mark, and will be finished after another... 5 chapters maybe? Each chapter will be around 4,000 words, so this novel is aiming for around 60,000 words.
Heather did a critique for me, so I need to print that off and go through and edit what I have so far. Apparently I use the word "and" way too much, and both of us decided it's because I'm trying to up my wordcount with it.
Oops?

I have another novel which is sitting at roughly 6 or 7k, and that's just the prologue and half of chapter 1. I'm really taking my time writing this novel as I want it to be perfect :P I feel that my writing is a lot better in that one, than the other one :P

The third and fourth (possible) novels are ones which I will write for Camp NaNoWriMo (whenever that takes place... Either that, or I can do a JulNoWriMo and just set myself a target for the month) and also for NaNoWriMo in November.

It's a lot of writing, and I have no idea what to do with these novels once I've finished. People keep telling me I should send them off to get published, but photography is what I want to pursue, and also what I'm going to university for.

Well... we'll see really.
I should probably get back to writing...