Pink Think: “Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.” – Lucille Ball
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First of all, just in case you are wondering, I am not doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year. (Are you? How is it going?) That’s because I have a story that has taken a hold of me and wouldn’t let go, and I started it well before this month.
It’s been several years’ worth of work, as it turns out.
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I was looking for an old manuscript of mine called The Spanish Exile, which is a historical swashbuckling novel set in Spain and the Philippines, my first real attempt at a novel from four or so years ago.
I can’t find it. Which worries me because as bad as first novels go, it was a finished draft. I must have gotten rid of it at one point – several points? – in my writing career when I was very discouraged.
Instead I found various attempts of the same multicultural YA story that has gone by different titles and in various states of polishing. It’s about as organized if I had tossed these papers in the air and piled them together.
Hodge podge. Mishmash. A patchwork quilt. But it must be an important enough story to me I’ve tried to get it out to the world numerous times.
Can this manuscript be saved? Stay tuned.
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Do YOU have a story or project like that? One that wouldn’t let you go?
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