Rally for the Finish! ~ and that's a wrap
Jun. 10th, 2010 10:09 pm
Do you know what this means, kids?
It means I finished an important project! In this case, BACKLASH GIRLS!
The very first-drafty Draft of it.
But we will not repine about it's lame ending pace and denouement! That's what fourteenth drafts are for.
What I love about this book is that there are so many guys in it--and so many girls in it. I think the MC has a pretty realistic (at least from my experience, as me) awareness of all sorts of men in her life. That's cool. She also has an intense love of her girlfriends, and the book is full of girls talking. I wanted more girl-drama in it, and I need the intensity to be more show, less tell, but it's a theme that's there.
And it's a book about an otaku geek-girl who gets turned into a real-live superhero. Goes away to a fancy boarding school. Loves to banter with people, and has found a group of people who know how to respond.
I wrote it because I loved these things, and sometimes that's all you can do for a book, in it's first draft.
...I feel a post about the superiority of girl-friends in shojo manga coming on, but I'll postpone that. 9_9