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get over there, will you?
Mar. 1st, 2025 11:59 pmTime for you to find out someone stole from you, you prince. So go check.
I did give you a good enough reason to check.
I did give you a good enough reason to check.
whether the weather
Dec. 16th, 2024 11:12 amPlugging along into action. The hero thinks he has rescued the children, not realizing he has fallen into a trap, and he's about to lose them again.
And then I remember I thought the next scenes would be in winter. Which means that they would be winter here, or at least late fall. Furthermore they were outside during the semi-rescue so they would know it.
sigh
I suppose there could be a gap in time between this scene and the next, but not too long because that would reflect badly on the hero. Except, oops, it can't be even that long because of what the villainess will do.
And then I remember I thought the next scenes would be in winter. Which means that they would be winter here, or at least late fall. Furthermore they were outside during the semi-rescue so they would know it.
sigh
I suppose there could be a gap in time between this scene and the next, but not too long because that would reflect badly on the hero. Except, oops, it can't be even that long because of what the villainess will do.
circle around, circle around
Nov. 16th, 2024 11:59 pmSometimes when you get squirrely, it's hard to to remember to go back to an earlier project so things get done.
sigh
sigh
Ah revision
Jul. 28th, 2024 11:54 pmOne point of revision is to find the points where you were not clear before, because now you can read what you wrote, not what you thought you wrote.
The downside is that sometimes you have no idea what you wrote. And those, of course, are the cases where they most need to be cleared up.
sigh
The downside is that sometimes you have no idea what you wrote. And those, of course, are the cases where they most need to be cleared up.
sigh
juggling threads
May. 29th, 2024 12:46 amQuite as fun as the metaphor suggests.
The hero has done things, and I have let the rumor get back to the secondary hero. It helps that because both of them have white hair while rather young, the rumors said the secondary hero did the things.
BUT -- the hero is now dealing with other characters. It occurs to me that they may have heard the rumors, too. And being rumors, not perhaps the truth. Definitely not the whole truth. . . .
sigh
The hero has done things, and I have let the rumor get back to the secondary hero. It helps that because both of them have white hair while rather young, the rumors said the secondary hero did the things.
BUT -- the hero is now dealing with other characters. It occurs to me that they may have heard the rumors, too. And being rumors, not perhaps the truth. Definitely not the whole truth. . . .
sigh
time management
Feb. 27th, 2024 11:59 pmI'm tempted to say that I'm vacuuming the cat, which can fixed by shifting works. (In my experience. YMMV.)
But I'm dawdling on other stuff, too. I think I need to buckle down on time management.
But I'm dawdling on other stuff, too. I think I need to buckle down on time management.
plugging through
Nov. 28th, 2023 11:45 pmI may get through the difficult scene this month. Even at the rate of maybe three sentences a day. . . .
At least it will be done.
At least it will be done.
the game of names
Apr. 5th, 2023 11:34 pmThe first step in filing off the serial numbers is changing the names.
This can be a trick when the old name has a magnetic attraction.
Today I am discovering it can be a trick even you hate the old, because the old character needs a suitable and fitting name, and the changes from renaming fight against it.
sigh
This can be a trick when the old name has a magnetic attraction.
Today I am discovering it can be a trick even you hate the old, because the old character needs a suitable and fitting name, and the changes from renaming fight against it.
sigh
juggling ideas again
Nov. 27th, 2022 10:27 pmThe problem with cutting out nifty ideas that don't work in the story as it comes together, and then putting them aside for the sequel, is that then you end up with an armful of slippery little ideas and have start getting them to come together.
Is it really more difficult than the first story was? I'm not sure, but I'll blame the sequel status for it. 0:)
Is it really more difficult than the first story was? I'm not sure, but I'll blame the sequel status for it. 0:)
encounters
Feb. 2nd, 2021 11:58 pmIt's all very well to plan out how the heroine and the others escape from the evil and violent monsters.
You still have to get them to meet in the first place.
Even if you know the vague outlines, the details matter.
sigh
You still have to get them to meet in the first place.
Even if you know the vague outlines, the details matter.
sigh
center of the story
Jan. 27th, 2021 10:16 pmAll stories need outlines because otherwise they peter out in the middle. (sometimes they peter out in the outline, which is less frustrating.)
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revising fast
Dec. 11th, 2020 10:11 pmIt helps to revise as quickly as you can, getting through the pages at speed. It means you are less likely to forgot, at page 203, what you wrote on page 17 that contradicted it.
But then sometimes you have to revise heavily, cutting down on the speed. sigh
But then sometimes you have to revise heavily, cutting down on the speed. sigh
fairy tale sequels
Oct. 22nd, 2020 11:40 pmsigh
No sooner than I have two outlines ready to run in November for NaNoWriMo (in case the first one is merely a too-short novella), than two more wander by.
One of them with a title like a horror story, and the other like a comic piece. I think both of them will need retitling. But at least I haven't written the story to the title only to find it doesn't fit.
No sooner than I have two outlines ready to run in November for NaNoWriMo (in case the first one is merely a too-short novella), than two more wander by.
One of them with a title like a horror story, and the other like a comic piece. I think both of them will need retitling. But at least I haven't written the story to the title only to find it doesn't fit.
all together now and other stupid ideas
Oct. 31st, 2019 10:53 pmFour plot threads. Four. Two of them thrown into the story after the outline, when I was chugging along, as merry little things.
And now they all come to a head in a short span of time in four different places. grumble grumble GROUSE
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And now they all come to a head in a short span of time in four different places. grumble grumble GROUSE
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I had a horrible dream last night
Apr. 22nd, 2018 05:26 pmI was at my desk (looked nothing like my desk) and poking a story idea and suddenly got a break through on it, inspiring a whole tumbling cascade of new ideas. . . and then I woke up, and remembered NONE of the story ideas, only that I had them.
fracturing fairy tales and Pop Top
Dec. 23rd, 2017 11:02 amsigh
There's something depressing about reading the reviews for The Irish Cinderlad and discovering that in spite of her explicitly telling them what folktales she had taken it from, many took it as her twisting Cinderella.
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There's something depressing about reading the reviews for The Irish Cinderlad and discovering that in spite of her explicitly telling them what folktales she had taken it from, many took it as her twisting Cinderella.
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ah middles
Dec. 17th, 2017 07:02 pmIt's one thing to know the beginning and the end. It's another to muddle through to the middle.
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