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Chapter Eight Is Done
Sep. 18th, 2008 02:13 am
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4 more chapters before I hit the halfway mark, people.
Sep. 18th, 2008
4 more chapters before I hit the halfway mark, people.
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Sep. 18th, 2008 07:58 pmI'm sorry, people. This journal is currently nothing but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
bittybang spam, isn't it? I hope you all don't mind, and I can't even promise that it'll be over soon - there's over a month until deadline, and tens of thousands more words to write. I'm trying to think of other stuff I can post to keep you all amused while I beaver away on the novel-length JuC.
I am quite excited, though, that I'm showing signs of actually being able to sustain a novel-length narrative, which I didn't think I could do. Of course, the first draft is sort of bitty and sketchy and doesn't do a good job of introducing some necessary plot elements, but these are the kinds of things I can fix in the edits. (One of the major skills, I've discovered, for keeping going on the narrative, is copious use of the phrase, "I'll fix it in the edits", even if only in my head.)
One of the things I hadn't counted on when I started this was that I'd need someone to help me edit a novel in the space of a month when all of this writing is done. I'm imagining that it's going to take a fair amount of work, too, since there's already an awful lot of stuff that I think needs editing, cutting, rewriting, adding in, and dramatizing better. And I'm keeping rough notes on themes that seem to be coming up as well because they are bugging me and I don't think I'm bringing them out very well.
So, basically, I am pleased with how this is going. (Everything else in my life is falling to bits, but my writing is really working, and I'm clinging to that as a good thing.)
bittybang spam, isn't it? I hope you all don't mind, and I can't even promise that it'll be over soon - there's over a month until deadline, and tens of thousands more words to write. I'm trying to think of other stuff I can post to keep you all amused while I beaver away on the novel-length JuC.I am quite excited, though, that I'm showing signs of actually being able to sustain a novel-length narrative, which I didn't think I could do. Of course, the first draft is sort of bitty and sketchy and doesn't do a good job of introducing some necessary plot elements, but these are the kinds of things I can fix in the edits. (One of the major skills, I've discovered, for keeping going on the narrative, is copious use of the phrase, "I'll fix it in the edits", even if only in my head.)
One of the things I hadn't counted on when I started this was that I'd need someone to help me edit a novel in the space of a month when all of this writing is done. I'm imagining that it's going to take a fair amount of work, too, since there's already an awful lot of stuff that I think needs editing, cutting, rewriting, adding in, and dramatizing better. And I'm keeping rough notes on themes that seem to be coming up as well because they are bugging me and I don't think I'm bringing them out very well.
So, basically, I am pleased with how this is going. (Everything else in my life is falling to bits, but my writing is really working, and I'm clinging to that as a good thing.)