DeeBee: Blog

After a couple of false starts I noticed that I do not have the spirit to rewrite the last chapters of 'Revenge'. The final result might have been a better story than the one that is getting published. But - 'Quod scripsi scripsi' - that is the way the story first came to me. I need to get that story out so that I can concentrate helping my editor with 'Whatever It Costs' - and once that is out there is at least two more stories waiting.

Thanks to my editor there are two more chapters of 'Revenge' available later today. The final two chapters will be posted also soon - I hope. It remains to be seen if I'll ever continue this since there was more but my editor made me think about it and I decided that IF I finish the sequel it will be written the same way 'Revenge' was written. I have some ideas but I've not yet been able to choose between them.

I also want to thank for all the comments I have received and I do promise that I'll proofread my new stories myself (and I'll use all the software I can find) before I spit them up to my poor editors. With my two first stories I was eager to publish but with no skills at all to finish them. Maybe I'll get better with time. Just maybe.

Chapters 5 and 6 have now been posted and it has just been decided that there will 13 chapters in this first part of the story. It will continue a bit later once I have rewritten the last chapters. I know that I had just said that I do not want to change my stories but this is not really a change...

The fact that there will be no more unedited posts coming should make my few readers happy.

I have been noted about 'Whatever It Costs' about some still-existing factual/lexical/grammar/syntax errors. The problem is that I truly, truly hate touching my old writings. So I guess that is one more reason why I'd never make it as a REAL writer ;) However, I have another editor who is taking a look at it and even if I may not like his corrections I'll add them there as soon as I've gone through them myself.

Maybe I should warn you about 'Revenge'. Even if the story is not as dark as I first intended it is not as sappy and romantic as 'Whatever It Costs'.

Somebody should have warned me about two things:

1) Reading something that you have written yourself some time ago can be a very traumatic experience.
2) How is it possible that there are some good people who are willing to go through the s**t you wrote and make it understandable? Especially when you sometimes cannot really understand it yourself. Which again reminds me about point one...

But the story is there and coming, like I said before it has already been totally written.