The First Five Pages: Melodramatic Dialogue

It turns out that I can’t stay away from my manuscript. I did rewrite the opening scene. We’ll see tomorrow which version I like better. The totally rewritten one or the multi-edited version. My bets are on the new one. As for my characters, we had a chat and they are now in therapy.

For my writing exercises of the today…well, melodrama was interesting. I like the idea of conveying drama with silence. I actually had used silence to convey the drama of the ending of my book and it pissed of a friend that read the ms. She was like, ‘what, that’s it? I want more. Is there a sequel? Go write it. You can’t leave it like that!’ Evidently, she wanted the ending spelled out for her. Oh well. Maybe I was being a little cruel. We’ll see. As I am learning, this stupid ms will never be complete. Even though it has been for a year. And of course, now I have a new idea that is itching to be written, but I don’t feel like I can just drop all the learning and whatnot that I am doing here and go off for a month or two to write it down. I’ve got to see this through. Besides, I think the new idea needs some percolating or else I’ll end up in revision hell for decades. The revisions aren’t hell, just the never-ending part.