“We have a look out?”
Apr. 20th, 2014 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mugenmineStuck
Draft 3
Chapter 2 @ 3,468/19,771
Still slow going but progress is being made. Work has been distracting and awful enough to get in the way of the focus I need to edit properly so well, things slowed down. On the up side, I spent the weekend editing/rewriting chapter 2 and it's finally taking shape. For me there's nothing more enjoyable than walking for miles then editing, and I got to do both. :-) Finishing up chapter 2 got me over the hump of "is this entire thing a loss" to "oh hey, this is starting to resemble something. I kind of like some of these words..." which is both relief-making and happy-making.
I got an interesting comment the other day on my last story saying that they had read it and was a little confused as to motivation and then they went back and read the stories from the first one and then was like "ohhhh, I get it now". (I thanked them for making it that far..) It's an interesting dilemma, working on a series of stories that create a arc as opposed to a single story which contains the arc. That's a lot of commitment on a readers part!
I've never had any interest in writing one offs outside of the AU I'm working in, I kind of like stretching out the character development and playing the long game over a series of short stories. I do have an endgame and I'd like to see if I can make it there. It's like I get the bonus of emotional/character arcing like a novel, yet not the hassle of managing all of those words at once. I think I'm physically unable to do a single story as a WIP! I mean it takes me forever to edit 20K? How the hell can people manage 100K? Super humans I tell you WIPers are... super-people... Working on a series is the closest I can come to that. But unlike a WIP, I always try to end the story in a place so it could act like the final one. Just in case! I've been burned by those 15 chapter never completed stories!
So tomorrow I get to jump into chapter 3. My current goal is a chapter a week. I've managed to do it so far if I do a lot of heavy lifting on the weekends. Looking at this one I am cautiously optimistic that the rewriting will be minimal. As the chapters progressed I slowly got more in line with the story I wanted to tell so I'm crossing my fingers that it will be less of a slog. 3 and 4 should be good. 5 is a mess of contrived contriveness and crappy dialogue that needs to be redone and 6 is just olympics in need of slashing and burning... I fear 6... 6 is a beast.
Draft 3
Chapter 2 @ 3,468/19,771
Still slow going but progress is being made. Work has been distracting and awful enough to get in the way of the focus I need to edit properly so well, things slowed down. On the up side, I spent the weekend editing/rewriting chapter 2 and it's finally taking shape. For me there's nothing more enjoyable than walking for miles then editing, and I got to do both. :-) Finishing up chapter 2 got me over the hump of "is this entire thing a loss" to "oh hey, this is starting to resemble something. I kind of like some of these words..." which is both relief-making and happy-making.
I got an interesting comment the other day on my last story saying that they had read it and was a little confused as to motivation and then they went back and read the stories from the first one and then was like "ohhhh, I get it now". (I thanked them for making it that far..) It's an interesting dilemma, working on a series of stories that create a arc as opposed to a single story which contains the arc. That's a lot of commitment on a readers part!
I've never had any interest in writing one offs outside of the AU I'm working in, I kind of like stretching out the character development and playing the long game over a series of short stories. I do have an endgame and I'd like to see if I can make it there. It's like I get the bonus of emotional/character arcing like a novel, yet not the hassle of managing all of those words at once. I think I'm physically unable to do a single story as a WIP! I mean it takes me forever to edit 20K? How the hell can people manage 100K? Super humans I tell you WIPers are... super-people... Working on a series is the closest I can come to that. But unlike a WIP, I always try to end the story in a place so it could act like the final one. Just in case! I've been burned by those 15 chapter never completed stories!
So tomorrow I get to jump into chapter 3. My current goal is a chapter a week. I've managed to do it so far if I do a lot of heavy lifting on the weekends. Looking at this one I am cautiously optimistic that the rewriting will be minimal. As the chapters progressed I slowly got more in line with the story I wanted to tell so I'm crossing my fingers that it will be less of a slog. 3 and 4 should be good. 5 is a mess of contrived contriveness and crappy dialogue that needs to be redone and 6 is just olympics in need of slashing and burning... I fear 6... 6 is a beast.
