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Actualfacts progress, yo
Nov. 15th, 2012 01:06 am. . . my roommate's way of speaking is infectious, shut up.
AT ANY RATE, the dragon book (Trial) is going well. Not steadily, which is weird for my usual novel-writing, but I haven't successfully full-out written a piece of any length in a while, so I hope this is just--I dunno, getting-back-on-the-horse jitters. I'm managing a chapter every time I sit down. Because this is a shorter book than Skywatch, a chapter's between 1000-1500 words. I can do more in a session (witness some of my lovely word counts on here), but so far one chapter at a time seems to be working. It's messy and flaily and I can tell it's going to take a lot of cleanup--Eva and Scorch's voices are way too similar, I'm not sure my haphazard exposition makes enough sense, and for some reason I can't get any of the other senses engaged besides sight--but such can be fixed. I need a draft to fix,so I am making a draft.
I'm doing alright so far switching POVs every chapter, but I can tell it's going to get tricky. I've already had to move things from one chapter to another; I know there are probably chapters later where this becomes ludicrous, but that's a problem to tackle when I get there. And even then, it's a problem to tackle in draft two.
Probably one of the most important things I learned from my creative writing degree and in the years since is that drafting is not just important to me, its essential.
( Writerly rambling. )
Five chapters down, twenty-one to go.
AT ANY RATE, the dragon book (Trial) is going well. Not steadily, which is weird for my usual novel-writing, but I haven't successfully full-out written a piece of any length in a while, so I hope this is just--I dunno, getting-back-on-the-horse jitters. I'm managing a chapter every time I sit down. Because this is a shorter book than Skywatch, a chapter's between 1000-1500 words. I can do more in a session (witness some of my lovely word counts on here), but so far one chapter at a time seems to be working. It's messy and flaily and I can tell it's going to take a lot of cleanup--Eva and Scorch's voices are way too similar, I'm not sure my haphazard exposition makes enough sense, and for some reason I can't get any of the other senses engaged besides sight--but such can be fixed. I need a draft to fix,so I am making a draft.
I'm doing alright so far switching POVs every chapter, but I can tell it's going to get tricky. I've already had to move things from one chapter to another; I know there are probably chapters later where this becomes ludicrous, but that's a problem to tackle when I get there. And even then, it's a problem to tackle in draft two.
Probably one of the most important things I learned from my creative writing degree and in the years since is that drafting is not just important to me, its essential.
( Writerly rambling. )
Five chapters down, twenty-one to go.