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"So, who is he?"
Jul. 23rd, 2014 12:46 pmStuck
Draft 5
Chapter 3 @ 18063
Progress is being made. I've pushed through the first two chapters of line editing and am making decent headway on the third. Line editing is a fun yet sometimes nerve wracking thing. Occasionally I'll hit a paragraph that refuses to unfuck itself. You know the ones... the action is there but the words are not in the right place or it's not quite conveying what you want to say and you shuffle words around trying to get it to read right. I've set up a general rule. If I can't make it work in ten minutes then perhaps it really will not work. So needless to say there's been a bit of culling. Which is always good. I'm feeling more or less okay about the story as a whole, but I'm a little worried about what will come next.
I always know way in advance what the next story in the series will be. I have a line of them all queued up and more or less ready to start. But this one has thrown everything into a spin. I have no idea what I'm going to do next. I know what has to be done, but not the story that will get them through that arc. This is both exciting and worrisome. I suppose that's the nature of stories. Sometimes they shift slightly and knock down your foundation... well no. I guess I just thought I was a bit more rigid in my planning. But the motivation, no matter how much I think I've planned has a way of changing out from under me. For the better I believe, but I kind of wish I'd give myself a heads up somehow instead of bumbling through a reset each time... :-)
So anywho, I'm out there looking for a story spark that doesn't make me roll my eyes, or cry foul. I suppose like my AU Sherlock who has to figure out what he will do next to sort things out, I have to figure out what to do next to sort things out. After I post this current story I might have to pick people's brains... brains....
Chapter 3 @ 18063
Progress is being made. I've pushed through the first two chapters of line editing and am making decent headway on the third. Line editing is a fun yet sometimes nerve wracking thing. Occasionally I'll hit a paragraph that refuses to unfuck itself. You know the ones... the action is there but the words are not in the right place or it's not quite conveying what you want to say and you shuffle words around trying to get it to read right. I've set up a general rule. If I can't make it work in ten minutes then perhaps it really will not work. So needless to say there's been a bit of culling. Which is always good. I'm feeling more or less okay about the story as a whole, but I'm a little worried about what will come next.
I always know way in advance what the next story in the series will be. I have a line of them all queued up and more or less ready to start. But this one has thrown everything into a spin. I have no idea what I'm going to do next. I know what has to be done, but not the story that will get them through that arc. This is both exciting and worrisome. I suppose that's the nature of stories. Sometimes they shift slightly and knock down your foundation... well no. I guess I just thought I was a bit more rigid in my planning. But the motivation, no matter how much I think I've planned has a way of changing out from under me. For the better I believe, but I kind of wish I'd give myself a heads up somehow instead of bumbling through a reset each time... :-)
So anywho, I'm out there looking for a story spark that doesn't make me roll my eyes, or cry foul. I suppose like my AU Sherlock who has to figure out what he will do next to sort things out, I have to figure out what to do next to sort things out. After I post this current story I might have to pick people's brains... brains....
