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Feb. 8th, 2010 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Weirdness: Last Time I was trying to hack words out of Bird of Dusk, I was doing so just after having read something that struck me as managing to move at a rapid-fire clip, include significant character details and relationships, and not be written in stripped bare prose. (I think it was Holly Black). And be short.
This time, I'm doing so after having been reading a book written by someone who loves lingering over all the personal interactions and fine detail (Usually to her benefit, more to the point, though in this particular book, there was a 125-page section I think should have been 75 pages, or 100 at the most).
And I've been wondering why it feels harder to edit down even as it feels rightly necessary.
So that's one reason I'm not reading book three of her series right away. The other is that I started the Pratchett/Stewart/Cohen Science Of Discworld book (As mom suggested the story portions also help make a bit more sense of things in Unseen Academicals, and, as for the alternating chapters, science = cool even in this light a touch.)
This time, I'm doing so after having been reading a book written by someone who loves lingering over all the personal interactions and fine detail (Usually to her benefit, more to the point, though in this particular book, there was a 125-page section I think should have been 75 pages, or 100 at the most).
And I've been wondering why it feels harder to edit down even as it feels rightly necessary.
So that's one reason I'm not reading book three of her series right away. The other is that I started the Pratchett/Stewart/Cohen Science Of Discworld book (As mom suggested the story portions also help make a bit more sense of things in Unseen Academicals, and, as for the alternating chapters, science = cool even in this light a touch.)