I poked around on the current WIP whilst I was sick. Not much, just a few hundred words here and there.
Now that I am able to stay awake all day (although the urge to hurl is still strong), I opened up the WIP with the idea of reading it and continuing writing it.
And it sucks. I hate it. Boooorrrriing. Blech.
So, you guessed it, I started over. BG2 originally was my Two Year Novel project way back, well, three (?) years ago. It was the first BG book, although it wasn’t called one since I didn’t know there was going to be a trend. Its original title was “Uhauls and Toaster Ovens”. The story line then was Nikki, a rural mail carrier, has someone knew move onto her route. Ellen, a software designer, wants to leave Philly and basically picked where she did by pure chance. They meet, become friends, become more…you get the idea. The underlying theme was to be the humor of Yankee learns Southern-speak.
When I wrote what would become BG1, I had Grace and Kelly meet three months after Grace moves to town. It never has “new-girl theme” undertones.
When I started to rewrite it last year, I changed the plot to avoid “moved to town and they met” scenario. Nikki and Ellen meet on-line via a lesbian website’s singles ads. Ellen moves down and they have to adjust to the living-together thing. This is the version I hate.
Now I think I will return to the original plot. My goal is to let the humor out-weigh the romance and therefor not be the same as BG1. The “new-girl theme” will be predominant but that’s okay.
In re-reading this post, I realized I started BG1 and BG2 the same year. I was writing with a gusto on “Uhauls” when I paused for my first NaNoWriMo in ’04. That’s when I wrote “Butch Girls Can Fix Anything” (aka BG1). After November, I tried to get back into “Uhauls” (aka BG2) and just couldn’t.