Raoul's adventures are long
28 March 2022 03:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI've just finished rough-typing Chapters 22 and 23 (also known as the infamous Plot Point Nine, which had not one but two completely rewritten sections jigsawed in from later points in the manuscript). I'm still not very happy with Raoul's accident scene, which was the substance of the second insert, but I can rework that yet again later. It's now over three years since I was writing this section, and about five since I started the wretched book...
At a quick glance, I was definitely wrong about the Christine-section and the Raoul-section 'balancing in length'; I haven't run the word-counts, but the numbers of typed pages -- some of which of course will be full pages and some only partial -- differ enormously. Christine and Erik occupy seven chapters (I have no idea where I got the figure of nine from), from p29 to p70 of the typescript: about 40 pages. Raoul so far has occupied eleven, from p71 to p123: about 50 pages, and we haven't finished with his section yet!
At a quick glance, I was definitely wrong about the Christine-section and the Raoul-section 'balancing in length'; I haven't run the word-counts, but the numbers of typed pages -- some of which of course will be full pages and some only partial -- differ enormously. Christine and Erik occupy seven chapters (I have no idea where I got the figure of nine from), from p29 to p70 of the typescript: about 40 pages. Raoul so far has occupied eleven, from p71 to p123: about 50 pages, and we haven't finished with his section yet!
