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Today I managed to force myself to finish a draft of a children's book (originally planned as a picture book but maybe now an early reader?) in Spanish that I've been working on for months now, rewriting the opening section again and again.
It's about immigration, but instead of the typical adjusting-to-a-new country type of books which is par for the course for books on immigration, it's about the people who are left behind, in this case a young girl whose father has gone off to Europe to find better-paying works.
I finally figured out the ending, two nights ago, so I've now muddled my way through from the heavily-rewritten beginning bits (where I think the voice works very well, in fact, I don't know how to translate into English myself, it sounds so stilted when I try to) to the ending with some big broad brush strokes that I'll have to go back over a bunch of times and fiddle with the relationships and so on, and especially the bits of dialogue, which I think are all horrid.
But it's a relief to finally have a complete draft finished to now begin to mold and tinker with.
Also managed to send off three more train bits to my editor, and am halfway through Sara Paretsky's BITTER MEDICINE, which I started this morning and am finding to be much better than I recalled. (I've found her a bit hit and miss with the titles of hers I've read so far, I liked one or two, the other not a much, although it may've been yet another of those Catholic Church plots that I'm getting so tired of lately. But I found all the Great Lakes shipping details in DEADLOCK fascinating... I had bought a handful of titles by her--three still on the to-read stack--since even the one I was less happy with was readable enough, and anyway, when I start a series I like to have a few entires on hand in case I like it; I HATE having to wait in between installments! Still, it's just as well that I'm headed back to the States soon given the rate I've been going through books lately...)
It's about immigration, but instead of the typical adjusting-to-a-new country type of books which is par for the course for books on immigration, it's about the people who are left behind, in this case a young girl whose father has gone off to Europe to find better-paying works.
I finally figured out the ending, two nights ago, so I've now muddled my way through from the heavily-rewritten beginning bits (where I think the voice works very well, in fact, I don't know how to translate into English myself, it sounds so stilted when I try to) to the ending with some big broad brush strokes that I'll have to go back over a bunch of times and fiddle with the relationships and so on, and especially the bits of dialogue, which I think are all horrid.
But it's a relief to finally have a complete draft finished to now begin to mold and tinker with.
Also managed to send off three more train bits to my editor, and am halfway through Sara Paretsky's BITTER MEDICINE, which I started this morning and am finding to be much better than I recalled. (I've found her a bit hit and miss with the titles of hers I've read so far, I liked one or two, the other not a much, although it may've been yet another of those Catholic Church plots that I'm getting so tired of lately. But I found all the Great Lakes shipping details in DEADLOCK fascinating... I had bought a handful of titles by her--three still on the to-read stack--since even the one I was less happy with was readable enough, and anyway, when I start a series I like to have a few entires on hand in case I like it; I HATE having to wait in between installments! Still, it's just as well that I'm headed back to the States soon given the rate I've been going through books lately...)
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