Last night's read through went well. I got to see the flow of the story, identified some gaps in the story telling as well as came up with ideas to resolve some of them. Also found a scene or two that needed to be swapped around in the order. Typos, lots of typos, especially of the 'what word was that supposed to be?' variety.
So, there's still some stuff to throw into the story and maybe some stuff that needs to come out yet, not necessarily entire scenes but the occasional sentence or paragraph, mostly stuff that's filling a purpose now but might be redundant when the entire thing is pieced together.
I wanted this done a couple months ago already but it wasn't ready and saw no reason to rush it for my own self-imposed deadline. I think I've a much better handle on it now than I did a couple months ago. I just need to keep at it...along with everything else I'm doing.
Into the edits...
28 May 2008
27 May 2008
Getting close now
I very definitely feel that I'm in the home stretch of one of my writing projects. I hate this part of the process.
Don't get me wrong, the feeling that I'm close to completion is a sweet one. The home stretch is more work than the rest of the creative process, to me anyway. I've already edited and hacked at this story more than I normally would. I'm reading through the edit, digging for all the awkward phrases and mistyped words and gaps in the story and it's work. Thinking up scenes is fun, the mind is free to imagine what it may and once a few scenes are in place, the rest can come like a waterfall, rushing into place. This part is less free, more crack filling.
It's also the part of the process where I turn on my work. It's all horrible and I can't see why I'm bothering to finish this fool thing when it's so horrible. No one's paying attention anyway.
In the end, all will be well. For the moment, it's all a pain in the kester.
Don't get me wrong, the feeling that I'm close to completion is a sweet one. The home stretch is more work than the rest of the creative process, to me anyway. I've already edited and hacked at this story more than I normally would. I'm reading through the edit, digging for all the awkward phrases and mistyped words and gaps in the story and it's work. Thinking up scenes is fun, the mind is free to imagine what it may and once a few scenes are in place, the rest can come like a waterfall, rushing into place. This part is less free, more crack filling.
It's also the part of the process where I turn on my work. It's all horrible and I can't see why I'm bothering to finish this fool thing when it's so horrible. No one's paying attention anyway.
In the end, all will be well. For the moment, it's all a pain in the kester.
25 May 2008
Reminder as we head for the summer
The larger the crowd is, the smaller their cumulative IQ will be. If you get a really big crowd, the decisions get worse and worse.
Probably explains the results of some elections.
Probably explains the results of some elections.
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