Note to self:
Just because the conflict in a novella needs to be solvable in a short amount of time, it does not mean that the conflict has to be unimportant. Something has to be at stake. And that something at stake should be something readers will care about. And industrial espionage, when the research being stolen can’t be immediately applied in any terrible way, and the demons already have easy access to the material being studied … okay, maybe that was a bad idea.
Very bad idea. Beyond the boundary of Kind-of-Dumb and verging onto Stupidville.
Now fixing.
ETA: of course, the good news is that after dancing around this problem and not seeing it through the first crappy drafts, and assuming the problem was, in turn: the villain, the heroine’s (lack of) emotional connection to the conflict, the revised villain, my inability to write anything omg I’m just a stupid hack!!! … now I’m pretty happy with all of that stuff, so now that I’ve figured out the REAL problem, it’s all so much easier.
:wants to read novella:
It will be wonderful since all of your work always is!
And we can all learn from your constant rewriting! :brickwall: Sometimes when I look back on some of my older material, I ask myself what the heck was I doing? I still rewrite stuff from awhile ago until I almost go insane. Love your work and glad you keep fighting the fight to keep your fans satiated!
Industrial espionage? Oh, gosh, that wouuld be cool! Joseph Finder does amazing with that. The personal conflicts between people is just rich with conflict!
But I’ll still like you if you chuck it. I’m clearly biased, LOLOL.
Ilona — you will soon
Tracy — aw. :slashyhug:
Mia — I hope some good comes out of it!
I end up rewriting novellas like crazy — almost more than novels. I’m not sure why. It’s just not an easy format for me.
spyscribbler — lol! it’s not the industrial espionage that’s the problem; it’s the “no immediate threat” that was killing this one.