Pen to Paper

I figured that I shouldn't go too long before putting another entry in here. I've been writing this whole week, the first time in a little over a month. Honestly, nothing gives you a rush like putting out anywhere from one chapter to three chapters a day! It's so exhilarating. Especially seeing how I've been working on a book that I really didn't care too much about. The new characters and scenes have caused me to fall in love with it so much more that I thought possible with this book. In the original version, I've just started to rewrite chapter two. In the new transcript, that is now chapter eight. It's not just the addition of chapters, characters, scenes.... My chapters are generally coming out twice the length--which I personally love. I never wanted to be one of those short 100-200 page writers. Mainly because I've found that those book really have no story to tell. And that's not who I am. I want to create, really create. I want stories that feel real. Okay maybe there's no such thing as a novel feeling real. But I know the books where you fly through the pages because you're so wrapped up in what is happening. That is what I want. Maybe that is what is forming. I certainly hope so.
I have one of my best friends reading my chapters as I finish them. She has been adding invaluable perspective for me. Normally when I edit, I edit myself with an unrestrained hand so that I can have the best possible product. This is my first friend who has written notes back to me in the same manner that I edit and I love it! I might be doing her an injustice in letting her read an un-proofed story. But on the other hand, she's given me more things to think about when I finish this round of writing and start proofing. Then again, maybe it may not be such an injustice. She already volunteered to be a beta-reader when I need one (which would be right before I go for that agent contract). So that 's real good to know--she wants to read it again! Maybe that just means something to me because I don't re-read books 98% of the time. But I do know that those of my friends who do re-read do so because they love the story. So that is a compliment.
Well the comments that I have been getting back have sparked the idea to start a new blog that keeps track of what's happening with my writing life. The only problem is that the only way that I foresee it in my mind as working is if I make a web page, since it will be easier to find things that way. I just don't know though. I really need to think about it some more. Despite the fact that I am excited to create it, because the comments that my friend is making would make a great Q & A page. Then I could also put pages of additional information that may or maybe not make it in the appendix of the book (I haven't decided on that part of the book, and may not have an answer until I hear from an agent or publisher). But it would be great fun to have a web page already established for readers to go to. I guess one of the next books I check out from the library will be web pages for dummies. :)