Slow progress is slow
Nov. 7th, 2011 12:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaThis weekend I battened down the hatches and spent two twelve-hour periods working on Skywatch (all day Saturday and all day Sunday). I processed line edits and re-read and outlined a hundred pages in the middle that need serious tension/stakes-raising added, then re-outlined them to figure out where to put said raised stakes, and then implemented the new scenes.
My to-do list this for this draft is still enormous, and mostly involves going through the rest of the book after the newly-added stakes-raising scenes and putting in mention of them, taking out scenes/phrases/bits that no longer make sense, and hoping like anything this solves the problem of people (myself and at least one reader so far) falling asleep halfway through the book.
AND THEN. I will start ANOTHER draft, in which to experiment with ANOTHER major change suggested. Which if I'm very, very lucky, I will get to do next weekend, assuming I can do everything in the above paragraph this week after work, which is something of a pipe dream given the way work has been HULK SMASH lately.
(By "lately" I mean "since July", but who's counting?)
I swear, every time I think I'm close to finished with Skywatch, someone points out a major flaw that will take a thousand spoons to fix and which requires fixing before I even think about putting together a query letter.
In the words of Mutant Enemy, GRR-ARGH!
My to-do list this for this draft is still enormous, and mostly involves going through the rest of the book after the newly-added stakes-raising scenes and putting in mention of them, taking out scenes/phrases/bits that no longer make sense, and hoping like anything this solves the problem of people (myself and at least one reader so far) falling asleep halfway through the book.
AND THEN. I will start ANOTHER draft, in which to experiment with ANOTHER major change suggested. Which if I'm very, very lucky, I will get to do next weekend, assuming I can do everything in the above paragraph this week after work, which is something of a pipe dream given the way work has been HULK SMASH lately.
(By "lately" I mean "since July", but who's counting?)
I swear, every time I think I'm close to finished with Skywatch, someone points out a major flaw that will take a thousand spoons to fix and which requires fixing before I even think about putting together a query letter.
In the words of Mutant Enemy, GRR-ARGH!