BookingIt

Thanks to Wendy and Jeanette for your Question posts. If you've already asked this in the past, I'm sorry for taking your question! Today I was thinking about art and how writing compares. That's another post. For this one, I was wondering about all of you. What medium for a painting would you choose? Watercolor, acrylic or oil? What would your main character choose? Why, and what do you think this preferences says about you or your character?

I'm so excited! My word counter finally says fifty percent done. Whew. I feel like I've made progress. I'm finally halfway through. I think the middle of a book is so important. This is where the tension is upped, where some threads are added to, others are resolved and the main one is complicated even more. Sometimes, this is where the sagging middle comes into play. The midpoint of a story is a good place to look at everything happening and take stock. Is the conflict getting higher and higher? Are the characters different than at the beginning of the story? At a different place, in the process of changing? This is how I look at the middle. What does the mid-point mean to you? What usually happens in the middle of a good book or movie?

That's me, y'all. The old dog who didn't want to "follow" anyone because she was too lazy to figure out how. I've changed my tune now, and boy is it sweet! Instead of clicking on each of your smiling faces everyday to see what's up with you, I get your posts on my dashboard. How cool is that? Of course, you already know about this cool trick, don't you? Is there anything else this tech-retarded girl should know?

When I first started writing for publication, I realized that my craft needed work. So I cut and pruned and honed my prose until I knew how to wield POV, how to make a sentence shine, and how to end with a hook. But now, something has dawned on me. It's not about my sentence structure, verbs or adjectives. Publishers and readers want a great story. This has challenged me to not only choose my words wisely, but to craft a story that is unique and powerful, not cliche (which I'm good at) or stale. It's tough though. Will my plots and characters resemble a dozen others in the same genre? What do you think? What is more likely to be published: a so-so story with amazing writing or a blow-you-away story with less than stellar writing?