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Monday, Monday
Aug. 21st, 2006 08:07 amI did not get 3-4 chapters done this weekend. One and a half, actually. A solid one and a half, with several good moments, but still. You'd think deadline panic would drive me harder, because Hell Yes, I'm in it. I'm avoiding looking at calendars and tricking myself with the fiction that my deadline is NEXT MONTH while avoiding the uncomfortable truth that NEXT MONTH begins the end of NEXT WEEK.
The start of the transition chapter was bothering me until I realized that it really needed to start with a discussion of what Jani and Lucien had gotten up to at the end of the previous chapter. No, not that. Anyway, I had originally inserted that discussion about halfway along the chapter. Moved it up some, cut/pasting it after the introductory who's-in-the-room-and-what-are-they-doing. This led to a nice blow-up, and some residual emotional fallout. All Good.
Sometimes I wonder if I would have been able to write novels if computers hadn't been invented because damn, I move text around a lot. I can't imagine what a paper manuscript would look like after my first round of revisions.
The start of the transition chapter was bothering me until I realized that it really needed to start with a discussion of what Jani and Lucien had gotten up to at the end of the previous chapter. No, not that. Anyway, I had originally inserted that discussion about halfway along the chapter. Moved it up some, cut/pasting it after the introductory who's-in-the-room-and-what-are-they-doing. This led to a nice blow-up, and some residual emotional fallout. All Good.
Sometimes I wonder if I would have been able to write novels if computers hadn't been invented because damn, I move text around a lot. I can't imagine what a paper manuscript would look like after my first round of revisions.
