Pen and Ink Confessions

I have had an imposibble time re-writing Ambition's Brother. Perhaps it's that the edits (at this point) are mostly nit-pic stuff rather than writing new scenes. Maybe it's that I'm not crazy about the story, anyway, and don't really like spending time with it. After all, I'm writing a character who hates his helplessly crippled brother to the point of almost murdering him...not the most upbeat of company to be keeping.

Then again, maybe I just would rather be building my Keela world, and re-writing Shadow Dance. In fact, most of how I've made myself work on it was by holding out my other projects as carrots I could have after this one was done. But at last it's almost through this series of edits. Then I can throw it at my readers/critiquers, and pretend for a little while that it's not my story.

I'll cross any editing bridges after that when I get to them--who knows, maybe by then I'll have fallen in love with the silly thing. Stranger things have happened.