ESTELLA

A novella by JEAN BAPTISTE DUVET
“Do things appear out of nothing, or are they always out there— just appearing and disappearing before my eyes?”

Writing is more like clay modeling; dirtying your hands everyday, pushing, pulling, and often starting wrong. Wrong words, wrong techniques, and wrong ideas. Estella; formerly known as Jean Baptiste Duvet— is Estella now on. We are in Draft-II phase, where writing and base (structure) come together, though a bit loosely. Second phase of writing often forces the structure to morph heavily, followed by the third phase, where the focus will be to connect, close and discard certain pieces which refuse to loop properly. At this point having fair idea what’s going on; fourth phase is all about re-writing everything in a linear fashion, disregarding the structure. It is written from start to end, and revised from end to start. Then starts the dreaded and super-boring part; editing and proofing. So, a few more weeks and we’re are Go.

I will start posting Draft-II in the Patron section, as I start to write it (in a week’s time). Until then…