Blooms Revenged

We're going through Blooms reallll slow.

It's not that we're being extra carful, it's just that we hate this part of the gig.

We just read a chapter that felt like one of those Hallmark Christmas movies.

Don't worry, we got a good Joe-Friday-like talkin' to from the man-police. To make up for our estrogen powered novel we're fixing Mrs. Stroock's bookshelf.

Blooms is different. Blooms is interesting and in the works for 3 years.

[This better be good -Ed]

We went way, way, waaaay out of our way to unleash some literary revenge. Why brag about it? Becuase the revenge is so obvious you people will see it right away.

And no, it's not about you, luv.

Outro:

Bloomed Out

Yesterday we formatted Blooms.

All that remains is to double-check the formatting and click SUBMIT. From there we get a hard copy to edit.

We'll read it through and so will the proofer.

It's not that we're unhappy with Blooms. We are quite happy with a book we never imagined we'd write and weren't sure how we'd go about writing. It's just that there are two ideas we failed to write about, and we wish like hell we'd succeeded.

It's too late now. This is the MS. This is book. We move on.

A primer:

Blooming on

We are nearing the end of Blooms, the sequel to A Line through the Desert begun two years ago becuase David Bowie died.

We don't quite have the ending down, but we're working on it.

Blooms is 90,000 words, making it the longest book we've ever written. There are still a few ideas kicking around the brain, a few themes we wonder if we should explore. That said the structure of Blooms may not allow that. Meaning what is written is written and adding new chapters will screw up what is written. We think.

We think it would be nice to have a scene where Jake and Patricia visit the street they grew up on. The reader never really finds out what happens to all those kids.

Another problem, their daughter is named Gwendolyn and we just can't think of a reason why this would be so. Why would Patricia choose a name like that? Also, what name would she choose?

Readers of A Line through the Desert are invited to weigh in on that one.

Bloomed

Welcome to the month of Blooms.

Throughout June we'll be reading, editing and filling the gaps in Blooms.

Actually, not only have we not written the ending, we really don't know how Blooms ends.

That said, things are going pretty well and we hope to have the MS to the resolute Debbie on 1 July.

Blooming

Going through Blooms yesterday we finished the chapter describing Jake and Patricia buying a house in Florida (after college and ROTC he gets a gig as a staff officer at Central Command). 

We were about to pack it up for the day when we came upon a chapter we forgot we wrote.

What a pleasant surprise.

This chapter deals with Jake coming back from his second Iraq tour in 2006.

We are quite pleased with what we read.