the muse, the river, and the bee
Aug. 26th, 2021 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliSo here I am, intrepid writer, revising again.
Hit a scene. Had it dawn on me forcefully that I revised this scene BEFORE the earlier scenes, when I first needed to introduce something, and know it's a painfully clunky bit.
I consider whether to excise. I consider whether it can be salvaged. (Which should be, whether it can still serve a purpose.) I ponder whether it's useful to show the passage of time, and lack of change in one character as she grows up. I put it aside to see what brilliant inspiration I can get.
Turns out it's, "Hey, she shouldn't fall in the river! She should get stung by a bee!"
Which does not alter theme, or increase repetition, or decrease it, or fix the fundamental issue. . . .
I think it can serve a purpose. And it will probably use the bee sting.
Hit a scene. Had it dawn on me forcefully that I revised this scene BEFORE the earlier scenes, when I first needed to introduce something, and know it's a painfully clunky bit.
I consider whether to excise. I consider whether it can be salvaged. (Which should be, whether it can still serve a purpose.) I ponder whether it's useful to show the passage of time, and lack of change in one character as she grows up. I put it aside to see what brilliant inspiration I can get.
Turns out it's, "Hey, she shouldn't fall in the river! She should get stung by a bee!"
Which does not alter theme, or increase repetition, or decrease it, or fix the fundamental issue. . . .
I think it can serve a purpose. And it will probably use the bee sting.