Editing issues
24 April 2019 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeAnd this sort of thing is why it takes me forever to write anything these days...
From today's efforts:
When he had left Christine there, it had been through a haze of unhappiness that had blinded him to almost all else.The image that clung to him now [When he tried to picture the place now, the abiding image] was [his final] glimpse of the bare little Protestant church up above the steep street where Christine had said [told him] once that she might [sing] some day sing, [with its roof] silhouetted against the sky above the steep street against a sky that was the very [precisely the] colour of her eyes.
(bold represents actual text, [italic] insertion edits,strike through deletions)
However, the story is actually progressing again, after a horrible month spent trying to rewrite the wreck scene retrospectively to create a completely different course of events that would still justify the following material -- I really, really struggle with rewrites. It is so infinitely much easier to discover the course of events for the first time than to try to change them after they have already happened; I simply can't imagine what it must be like to be one of those people who writes fiction 'out of order' (and a lot of people can and do). I'm not altogether happy with the rewrite either, which still feels a bit forced and rather unbalances the chapter, to which it wasn't intended to be the climax, but I'm absolutely not going to do any further work on that unless I have to... action scenes never were my forte.
For the new chapter I have proceeded to dive back into the familiar territory of in media res, flashback, and character angst (as see extract above!) and a getting along relatively swimmingly, which is to say at over a hundred words a day.
I am beginning to run out of ink (I shall need to buy a new bottle before long) and to reach the end of this notebook, which has been taken up entirely by Raoul's adventures. But very, very soon (within the next few paragraphs, I hope, and at all costs by the end of the chapter) Christine will have returned to the story and the rest of it will be entirely joint in plot :-D
From today's efforts:
When he had left Christine there, it had been through a haze of unhappiness that had blinded him to almost all else.
(bold represents actual text, [italic] insertion edits,
However, the story is actually progressing again, after a horrible month spent trying to rewrite the wreck scene retrospectively to create a completely different course of events that would still justify the following material -- I really, really struggle with rewrites. It is so infinitely much easier to discover the course of events for the first time than to try to change them after they have already happened; I simply can't imagine what it must be like to be one of those people who writes fiction 'out of order' (and a lot of people can and do). I'm not altogether happy with the rewrite either, which still feels a bit forced and rather unbalances the chapter, to which it wasn't intended to be the climax, but I'm absolutely not going to do any further work on that unless I have to... action scenes never were my forte.
For the new chapter I have proceeded to dive back into the familiar territory of in media res, flashback, and character angst (as see extract above!) and a getting along relatively swimmingly, which is to say at over a hundred words a day.
I am beginning to run out of ink (I shall need to buy a new bottle before long) and to reach the end of this notebook, which has been taken up entirely by Raoul's adventures. But very, very soon (within the next few paragraphs, I hope, and at all costs by the end of the chapter) Christine will have returned to the story and the rest of it will be entirely joint in plot :-D
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Date: 2019-04-28 02:20 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't mentioned it, as I've more or less given up scannning FFnet for new material.
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Date: 2019-04-28 06:15 pm (UTC)