Running for My Life — the movie

I was surprised and awed when Jennifer Wolf a writer and video magician showed me the book trailer she made for Running for My Life. It’s wonderful.

To top it off her daughter, Sabrina, loves Running for My Life. That means the world to me. While I know there will always be people who don’t like what I do, and what I write, still a sharp negative review like the one I received on Amazon (One negative out of 16…so it’s not like I don’t have plenty of good to counterbalance.) stuns me. But, my floundering in that negative pool was short lived because Sabrina loved Pedro and the story and she matters more to me than the negative, anonymous, critic of my book.

Anyway, check out the trailer…it’s awesome and I’m grateful:

Running for My Life

Revision number three

Okay, I’m getting close. I ran into a problem where I revised my revisions so often that I lost track of my main character. So, I spent several days listening to her remind me what the story is about and what it is that she wants to say about it all. In essence, I stopped revising from some sense of “correction” and allowed the main character to address the issues my agent was concerned about. Sarah, the main character, she’s quite smart. I’m not sure how she puts up with me. I know she’s restraining herself from a long diatribe of “I told you so”s.

What I’ve learned? Let the narrator handle the revision. Share the revision letter with the main character and let him or her suggest solutions. I wish I’d done it months ago, but there’s no time for regrets…I’ve got a novel to revise, and a main character who is dying to revise it.

This manuscript has to be complete by November 1…because Nanowrimo is just around the corner. I’ve got another main character who has a whole other story he or she is eager to tell. (I’ve got two…one by he and one by she. Any suggestions on how to figure out which novel to tackle next? Flip a coin?)

I hope you are all writing well and enjoying yourselves. In Seattle, most of us are eager for some rainy writing weather.