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Back to the beginning
9 July 2021 09:14 amI have my first tomatoes setting -- one fruit so far on the towel-tomatoes and one on the magazine tomatoes. (It's just as well the towel-tomatoes haven't grown any larger, as they are directly underneath my washing-line and already in hazard from trailing shirt-sleeves and other garments...)
I haven't done any work at all on Hertha for the last week, because -- prompted by Mei Bruges, who managed to track me down from fanfiction.net -- I have finally been attempting to rewrite the first chapter of Arctic Raoul to attempt to make it work better as a stand-alone story. My reaction to that opening chapter right from the start was that it was a complete non-starter ("the whole beginning that I was so pleased with turns out to be reams of flashback written with no intention of being anything other than fan-fiction, and it really shows"), but I've never known where even to start in trying to create a new opening to the story.
Mei read the first few chapters and suggested a potential opening structure (extending the first line into a 'goodbye' scene between two characters whom the reader has not met before, and getting the readers immediately invested in Raoul and Christine as briefly as possible) after which I could change around the order of some of the rest of the chapter and attempt to provide a brief outline of the canon plot points that get referenced later. ( Read more... )
I haven't done any work at all on Hertha for the last week, because -- prompted by Mei Bruges, who managed to track me down from fanfiction.net -- I have finally been attempting to rewrite the first chapter of Arctic Raoul to attempt to make it work better as a stand-alone story. My reaction to that opening chapter right from the start was that it was a complete non-starter ("the whole beginning that I was so pleased with turns out to be reams of flashback written with no intention of being anything other than fan-fiction, and it really shows"), but I've never known where even to start in trying to create a new opening to the story.
Mei read the first few chapters and suggested a potential opening structure (extending the first line into a 'goodbye' scene between two characters whom the reader has not met before, and getting the readers immediately invested in Raoul and Christine as briefly as possible) after which I could change around the order of some of the rest of the chapter and attempt to provide a brief outline of the canon plot points that get referenced later. ( Read more... )
