The editor

I am embarking on a new voyage. I have an editor for my novel! I am thrilled to have a professional reading my manuscript. I don't know how much re-writing I will have to do but I am so excited. Writing is one of the things that I live for, and to rewrite it will only make it a better novel and make me grow as a writer, and isn't that what it is all about? Writing is one step in the publishing process. I have had friends who also write read my novel but there is something about a professional assessing your work. Some writers may be intimidated by it but I welcome it. I see it as bringing me one step closer to publication!

Clubbing It

Much of my novel takes place in an imaginary vampire club in the East Village of Manhattan called the Gray Wolf. I describe it in my book, however, it is a product of my imagination. Have any of you visited a "real" vampire club? If so, would you send me your impressions. Hey, even if you haven't, what do you imagine a vampire club to look and feel like? What would the music sound like and would you be tempted to enter one?

The Death of a character

I needed to make my ending more dramatic and resolve alot of loose ends. Books really do sell on their endings so I needed mine to be more believable. I killed off a character whom I loved. It broke my heart but I did it. I feel like I betrayed one of the main characters by ending the life of one of his closest friends. I am in the midst of rewrites so perhaps I will decide against it and come up with another ending but as it stands right now, he is dead as a doornail.

I have not posted in some time spending much of my free time finishing my novel and working on rewrited before it goes to my editor. A bit intimidating but necessary to make my novel the best it can be.