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Jul. 30th, 2007
Boring writerly post, nothing to see here
Jul. 30th, 2007 09:23 pmTwo chapters of TDC revised so far. Those were the easy ones. I added still more setting to chapter one, which may be unwise, but I don't care. I'm starting to hate it anyway, so it might as well be pretty. Writing as slowly as I do, I've read the first chapter of anything 17 million times before I'm through--it's hard not to hate. Chapter three and on are where the pov issues start to act up.
I'm now balking at cutting a side character who ended up not doing anything important. I'm only balking because he's pretty and smells nice. Probably not reason enough to keep him around cluttering up the narrative. But, but, but...pretty! (And god knows some popular authors have more than one pretty-but-useless character cluttering up their stories. :P ) It's not too late for him to find some convenient plot and hold on for dear life.
I also worked on "Red is the Color" and "Music From a Farther Room" tonight. Both of these stories are set in the near future, and are about nothing but angst, weather, and relationships. Red at least has zombie-love to distract from the COMPLETE LACK OF PLOT. And Farther Room is completely spoilerific for the Hastur books, so its fate may be as a chapbook when the series is finally published. By then, it won't be set in the future anymore.
In more entertaining news, I got a postcard from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ultharkitty today. It has nudity! I am shocked and dismayed, or something. The thought of running naked in heels fills me with quite a lot of dismay, actually, but the card is still fabulous.
Also, story monies! Hurrah for monies!
I'm now balking at cutting a side character who ended up not doing anything important. I'm only balking because he's pretty and smells nice. Probably not reason enough to keep him around cluttering up the narrative. But, but, but...pretty! (And god knows some popular authors have more than one pretty-but-useless character cluttering up their stories. :P ) It's not too late for him to find some convenient plot and hold on for dear life.
I also worked on "Red is the Color" and "Music From a Farther Room" tonight. Both of these stories are set in the near future, and are about nothing but angst, weather, and relationships. Red at least has zombie-love to distract from the COMPLETE LACK OF PLOT. And Farther Room is completely spoilerific for the Hastur books, so its fate may be as a chapbook when the series is finally published. By then, it won't be set in the future anymore.
In more entertaining news, I got a postcard from
ultharkitty today. It has nudity! I am shocked and dismayed, or something. The thought of running naked in heels fills me with quite a lot of dismay, actually, but the card is still fabulous.Also, story monies! Hurrah for monies!
