Happy
Everyone now and then I think about revising my first novel, Tripio. I’m guessing that I am not alone in this, especially on one’s first novel. When I actually voiced this over a phone call to my book producer, who I worked with on the Trier, his response was that a lot of authors do feel this way. He told me what was involved from a technical standpoint in order to, as he put, “re-pour” the book into print. He also said make sure I don’t do all this work just to change happy to glad.
Happy
I have not been visited by the same urges with The Trier. In fact, as I write this post, I dare say that I never have wanted to go back into it. I may revise this post later, but I can’t think of that thought poking at me since the Trier came out last summer.
I am writing this blog post before I begin work on the follow up to The Trier, whose working title is The Trier Goes to London. It feels like I just started it. But it is coming to an end, not by my choice, or decision or plan. It began when I had my main character sit in a chair with his back to a fireplace. It was the beginning of the arc that will conclude TGL.
Glad
It isn’t that I have had no idea what I was doing. I am a dedicated “pantser’, not a plotter, but I’m not crazy. I have had the dramatic ending of the novel in mind for months now. It has just been waiting in my subconscious mind for a chance to jump out and say “now”. That did sound a bit crazy, I guess. But then again, not a crazy as spending a small fortune to change happy to glad.
The word happy appears 31 time in Tripio.
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