Comments on: I left my novel on the operating room table… http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/ By day, I am a producer, on-air correspondent, podcaster and raconteur in the new media business. By night, I write novels for teens and am the author of The Mockingbirds, to be published by Little, Brown in November 2010. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:34:10 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Daisy Whitney » My Frankenstein Novel Lives http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-1601 Daisy Whitney » My Frankenstein Novel Lives Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:02:56 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-1601 [...] September I left a novel on the operating table. Cut open, guts oozing, parts everywhere. I called it my Frankenstein [...] [...] September I left a novel on the operating table. Cut open, guts oozing, parts everywhere. I called it my Frankenstein [...]

]]> By: Melora http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-561 Melora Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:30:22 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-561 Oh, the horror! Yes, I admit to only one novel completed, but about five others started and abandoned, left in various stages of decay. I'm just about to get them out and re-read to see if something sparks. Of course, there's another new idea begging for my attention. There is one I can't wait to get back to, and one I just don't see how to continue, though I love the concept. As always, Time is the enemy. How do you fight an enemy that is so fluid? Maybe I need to work on some sci-fi. Oh, the horror! Yes, I admit to only one novel completed, but about five others started and abandoned, left in various stages of decay. I’m just about to get them out and re-read to see if something sparks. Of course, there’s another new idea begging for my attention. There is one I can’t wait to get back to, and one I just don’t see how to continue, though I love the concept. As always, Time is the enemy. How do you fight an enemy that is so fluid? Maybe I need to work on some sci-fi.

]]> By: Debra Schubert http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Debra Schubert Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:57:13 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-560 All the more reason for a Public Option. Otherwise, THE PATIENT - with a horribly bad pre-existing condition - wouldn't stand a chance! Love your analogy. Too darn funny! All the more reason for a Public Option. Otherwise, THE PATIENT – with a horribly bad pre-existing condition – wouldn’t stand a chance! Love your analogy. Too darn funny!

]]> By: courtney http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-558 courtney Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:44:59 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-558 That was the most graphic and perfect description of this kind of event. Ohhh my goodness. I started and stopped the book I am returning to now! I couldn't leave all the body parts attached to all the wrong places. Other novels have not been so lucky, and they languish on the table. ;) That was the most graphic and perfect description of this kind of event. Ohhh my goodness. I started and stopped the book I am returning to now! I couldn’t leave all the body parts attached to all the wrong places. Other novels have not been so lucky, and they languish on the table. ;)

]]> By: Liz Miller http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-557 Liz Miller Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:21:21 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-557 Definitely know where you're coming from. About four years ago now, I started working on a play that had a solid concept but was really just an excuse for me to spend lunch breaks at my temp job working out my mother issues. After about 75 pages or so, I abandoned it. But last year, I picked it up again, cut the really self-indulgent crap, and gave it an ending. This spring, I cut it down yet again to make it into a one-act which we workshopped at a one-act festival, which went really well. And then this summer I did the second draft of the full-length version, which I am now sending around in the hopes of getting staged properly. Sometimes, patience and faith in your idea really does pay off. :) Definitely know where you’re coming from. About four years ago now, I started working on a play that had a solid concept but was really just an excuse for me to spend lunch breaks at my temp job working out my mother issues. After about 75 pages or so, I abandoned it. But last year, I picked it up again, cut the really self-indulgent crap, and gave it an ending. This spring, I cut it down yet again to make it into a one-act which we workshopped at a one-act festival, which went really well. And then this summer I did the second draft of the full-length version, which I am now sending around in the hopes of getting staged properly. Sometimes, patience and faith in your idea really does pay off. :)

]]> By: Anthony James Barnett - author http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Anthony James Barnett - author Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:49:32 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-555 I'm IN that situation at the moment. My poor patient is lying in a coma, waiting for resuscitation. Since giving birth to WITHOUT REPROACH, I'm afraid the next patient has been neglected - I’m IN that situation at the moment. My poor patient is lying in a coma, waiting for resuscitation.

Since giving birth to WITHOUT REPROACH, I’m afraid the next patient has been neglected -

]]> By: Alexa http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-553 Alexa Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:18:47 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-553 Aw poor Patient. Yes I have a similar unfinished novel which is more like an Igor because I think it's actually what should be three separate stories whacked together, badly. Don't think there is any hope for it. Aw poor Patient. Yes I have a similar unfinished novel which is more like an Igor because I think it’s actually what should be three separate stories whacked together, badly. Don’t think there is any hope for it.

]]> By: Victoria http://daisywhitney.com/blog/i-left-my-novel-on-the-operating-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Victoria Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:02:09 +0000 http://daisywhitney.com/?p=511#comment-552 I have stopped a couple projects, but I never like to think of them as dead and gone. I try not to make a habit of starting and then not finishing, so I don't have TOO many limbs around without bodies, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes other stories intervene, or life does. I do have one, a MG for boys, and I am determined that one day, ONE DAY I will return to it and put the pieces back together. It got left on the table between revising one story, and writing another. I don't like to think of it, because I feel guilty. It also doesn't help that one of my favorite *characters* I've ever written is in that story, buried amid the wreckage. For that reason, I don't think I'll ever be able to abandon it completely. I have stopped a couple projects, but I never like to think of them as dead and gone. I try not to make a habit of starting and then not finishing, so I don’t have TOO many limbs around without bodies, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes other stories intervene, or life does. I do have one, a MG for boys, and I am determined that one day, ONE DAY I will return to it and put the pieces back together. It got left on the table between revising one story, and writing another. I don’t like to think of it, because I feel guilty. It also doesn’t help that one of my favorite *characters* I’ve ever written is in that story, buried amid the wreckage. For that reason, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to abandon it completely.

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