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Sucks. Sucks. Suckity suck suck suck. However, this is probably normal.
I almost began with the midget clown story, then decided that I should probably not open two books in a row with midget stories. Also, although it was sort of the inciting incident, in itself it doesn't have all that much relevance to the book as a whole. Wheras the burning car story (for those of you familiar with my life, this was the first burning car when I was nineteen) has less immediate relevance, but encapsulates a lot of the themes of the rest of the book, and is also more dramatic. So burning car it is. For now.
I almost began with the midget clown story, then decided that I should probably not open two books in a row with midget stories. Also, although it was sort of the inciting incident, in itself it doesn't have all that much relevance to the book as a whole. Wheras the burning car story (for those of you familiar with my life, this was the first burning car when I was nineteen) has less immediate relevance, but encapsulates a lot of the themes of the rest of the book, and is also more dramatic. So burning car it is. For now.
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I think your new book sounds neat and I hope the nonsuckitude and wondertude outweigh the suckitude. Eventually? Yeah.
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Burning cars? The idea that there have been more than one is alarming. I am glad that you are still here to tell the tale, hon.
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Motor vehicle accidents have been a recurring theme in my life-- even in India, where neither I nor my parents drove.
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They suck later too, but it's especially bad at the beginning, when you have this polished just-completed book in front of you, and have forgotten how badly it once sucked, because it seems pretty good, now. :-)
And I think, actually, that the second book is the scariest, because of the fear that maybe the first was just a bit of dumb luck. (It wasn't, but we all have that fear!)
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I want, ofcourseofcourseofcourse, to read this proposed second book, as I would want to read anything you wrote, even a sharecropped Baen novel that said JERRY POURNELLE's C.O.C.K. FORCE in big chrome letters and your name in very small ones (not that you're likely to be swapping book contract with John Ringo!). And you are, ofcourseofcourseofcourse, a TERRIFIC non-fiction writer who's lived a fascinating life, so of course you should go with that.
BUTbutbut, I do hope this means that INDEPENDENCE hasn't been consigned to a trunk or anything like that.
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Independence has been consigned to the "rewrite before submitting" stack, which is not exactly a trunk as it and Project Blue Rose (see above) are the only things in that stack. The latter gets precedence because it's quite short and won't take me too long to finish, and also has a printing deadline.
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---L.
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---L.