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Dec. 8th, 2005 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseSo, I haven't been writing in the traditional sense of sitting at the computer and typing novel prose.
I have been writing bits of a plot summary that actually looks promising for getting the guts of the story out in brief, both on computer and in longhand.
What i've mostly been doing, though, is taking my scene-by-scene sheets, cutting all the scenes apart, writing in a few additional details by hand, then using floor space, and scotch tape to figure out the new order of events. And writing notes about what *has* to go before what. (There's nothing more embarrassing than having a character show up again in human shape after they've been turned into a tree, and I nearly did that to myself.)
Little is firmly decided yet between about the 50% point and the climax, but some things are already clear. It's shorter (a plus when I was looking at a draft that was guaranteed to go over 160k.) It may be easier to interweave more backstory gradually and naturally into current dialogue. I think I give my main character about one chance to rest and catch a breather once things really get going. However, my goddess seems to have less cause for what she does, which could be problematic if I don't play the cultural notes just right. (So my MC's actions cause a major battle that probably undermines all of her plans. Is that really enough?)
It feels like progress, even if it is mostly taping bits of paper together. Next step, swapping the scenes around in a new set of files, with big notes for what else changes. Next step after that, writing the last segments of the raw prose -- yes, *before* I fix all the thousand small things that rearranging the scenes will do. Then I'll have the ending decided.
Then the whole huge overhaul. This is going to be the kind of rewrite that reminds me why other writers hate all rewriting. (I usually like it as much as scrawlign down raw prose.)
I still intend to give myself one day on the weekend to work on Labyrinth's raw prose. I lost my Evil Overlord notes on that in the crash, but I remember most of them. (Oddly enough considering my last post, the words "I'm being eaten by a Shoggoth" featured prominently in one piece of advice for the heroine.) I've been rereading Doonesbury strips from the 1970's as a first step in the research I need to do for this one -- and possibly for Disco Dracula. I'll probably also peek at Mom's Trudeau-era Uluschak editorial cartoon collections as well (Trust me, it makes more sense thah it first sounds like.)
But before *all* that, sleep, I think.
I have been writing bits of a plot summary that actually looks promising for getting the guts of the story out in brief, both on computer and in longhand.
What i've mostly been doing, though, is taking my scene-by-scene sheets, cutting all the scenes apart, writing in a few additional details by hand, then using floor space, and scotch tape to figure out the new order of events. And writing notes about what *has* to go before what. (There's nothing more embarrassing than having a character show up again in human shape after they've been turned into a tree, and I nearly did that to myself.)
Little is firmly decided yet between about the 50% point and the climax, but some things are already clear. It's shorter (a plus when I was looking at a draft that was guaranteed to go over 160k.) It may be easier to interweave more backstory gradually and naturally into current dialogue. I think I give my main character about one chance to rest and catch a breather once things really get going. However, my goddess seems to have less cause for what she does, which could be problematic if I don't play the cultural notes just right. (So my MC's actions cause a major battle that probably undermines all of her plans. Is that really enough?)
It feels like progress, even if it is mostly taping bits of paper together. Next step, swapping the scenes around in a new set of files, with big notes for what else changes. Next step after that, writing the last segments of the raw prose -- yes, *before* I fix all the thousand small things that rearranging the scenes will do. Then I'll have the ending decided.
Then the whole huge overhaul. This is going to be the kind of rewrite that reminds me why other writers hate all rewriting. (I usually like it as much as scrawlign down raw prose.)
I still intend to give myself one day on the weekend to work on Labyrinth's raw prose. I lost my Evil Overlord notes on that in the crash, but I remember most of them. (Oddly enough considering my last post, the words "I'm being eaten by a Shoggoth" featured prominently in one piece of advice for the heroine.) I've been rereading Doonesbury strips from the 1970's as a first step in the research I need to do for this one -- and possibly for Disco Dracula. I'll probably also peek at Mom's Trudeau-era Uluschak editorial cartoon collections as well (Trust me, it makes more sense thah it first sounds like.)
But before *all* that, sleep, I think.
