I sent the ms back to Jane yesterday. I finally got up to where she had stopped. I sent it to her so she can see how I am doing. I’ve not heard back but I’m assuming it is because of the weekend. How dare she take time off! 😀
I still really love this story. I’ve liked it from the beginning (NaNoWriMo 2004).
I’ve been thinking about why this book is so good from the beginning while the other BG books stink. One thought is that I started with a title and wrote a book around it. These others are writing a book without much thought to a title.
Lorna and I used to do a lot of things on our own. Like fix cars and lawnmowers and move heavy things. When we did something we thought was not possible (as in we couldn’t do it), we would do a little ditty called “Butch Girls Can Do Anything” (aka BG1). That’s all the words, by the way. So, I decided to use FIX instead of DO and wrote a book about a fix-it lady.
In the process of writing that book, I developed some way cool characters and decided to give them their own books. So I have the characters, but not a title. Harri is a mechanic. Butch Girls Can Drive Anything? Blech. BGs Are Classic? Love the Classics? (Harri renovates old vehicles). BGs Like the Fast Lane? Arrrgghh!
Harri is the butchest of them all, in terms of stereotypical. So Classic kinda fits there too which is why I keep leaning toward that. Stereotypical, despite being such a long word, has very few synonyms: stereotype, stereotypic, unimaginative (according to WordWeb). Not much help there.
What about you other writers? Do you start with an idea? A title? A character? What?