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igenlodeI have written the first sentence of Plot Point 12 (and from Christine's point of view, because after saying that couldn't possibly be done I started seeing potential in it) :-D
In other words, after two months I have finally finished rewriting the rest of Plot Point 9, the wretched chapter that was supposedly finished back in February. I'm not sure how much of an improvement it is — a lot of it consists of expanding a couple of sentences about sailing to windward on a 'show not tell' basis, and possibly telling would have been less tedious — but I've reached the stage of simply washing my hands of it, saying "well, I can't write action scenes" and treating that as a general excuse. :-(
There are at least two advantages over the previous version; we get another little scene for Dr Cirillo, who was only created specifically for the purposes of this chapter but whom I ended up rather liking, and it coincidentally solves the problem with scene-lengths created by rewriting the end of the chapter earlier. By expanding the first half, originally compressed into as compact a space as possible in the hopes of beng able to achieve the shores of Norway in a single chapter, I've now ended up with two chapters of three-and-a-bit thousand words in place of a single one plus an awkward short scene. The first chapter is now a crew-bonding experience, rather than a list of who's on board plus some random miserableness to justify my Arctic/Antarctic research, and the second chapter then runs from the actual accident onwards, covering the wreck, rescue and conversation with d'Artois.
I have also finished working over Frozen fic number two (though I didn't manage to come up with any real changes, short of rewriting the sledge-scene in an attempt to make it more 'action' friendly) and have now started typing that one up. I think I'm just going to call it "Familiar", which has sufficient ambiguity of meaning not to give the plot away; "Yesterday and a Lifetime Ago" can serve as a grandiloquent title for the first chapter, and I'll need to come up with something else for the second. Tagging accordingly.
Of course, one problem with splitting it into two chapters is that people really are apt to start expecting the standard twenty-plus-chapter 'characters reconcile slowly and realistically' epic...
In other words, after two months I have finally finished rewriting the rest of Plot Point 9, the wretched chapter that was supposedly finished back in February. I'm not sure how much of an improvement it is — a lot of it consists of expanding a couple of sentences about sailing to windward on a 'show not tell' basis, and possibly telling would have been less tedious — but I've reached the stage of simply washing my hands of it, saying "well, I can't write action scenes" and treating that as a general excuse. :-(
There are at least two advantages over the previous version; we get another little scene for Dr Cirillo, who was only created specifically for the purposes of this chapter but whom I ended up rather liking, and it coincidentally solves the problem with scene-lengths created by rewriting the end of the chapter earlier. By expanding the first half, originally compressed into as compact a space as possible in the hopes of beng able to achieve the shores of Norway in a single chapter, I've now ended up with two chapters of three-and-a-bit thousand words in place of a single one plus an awkward short scene. The first chapter is now a crew-bonding experience, rather than a list of who's on board plus some random miserableness to justify my Arctic/Antarctic research, and the second chapter then runs from the actual accident onwards, covering the wreck, rescue and conversation with d'Artois.
I have also finished working over Frozen fic number two (though I didn't manage to come up with any real changes, short of rewriting the sledge-scene in an attempt to make it more 'action' friendly) and have now started typing that one up. I think I'm just going to call it "Familiar", which has sufficient ambiguity of meaning not to give the plot away; "Yesterday and a Lifetime Ago" can serve as a grandiloquent title for the first chapter, and I'll need to come up with something else for the second. Tagging accordingly.
Of course, one problem with splitting it into two chapters is that people really are apt to start expecting the standard twenty-plus-chapter 'characters reconcile slowly and realistically' epic...
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Date: 2019-08-02 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-02 12:46 pm (UTC)Months yet, at a conservative estimate.