Snippet Sunday
13 Jan 2013 11:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wayfaringwordhackI was going to share a watercolor painting I worked on this week, but I didn't get around to taking a photo.
Instead I will speak of my writing progress. I decided to reread volume one of Witherwilds. I'm happy to say that I was quite into it at the end of the story (maybe from a little before the 2/3 mark),. The downside of that, of course, is I have a lot of work to do on the opening. If the story, which I obviously like and feel is worth writing, did not engage my interest enough to be impossible to put down, it will not engage a uninvested reader.
At this point, I'm trying to decide if I should go back to the beginning and fix book one or charge on with bk 2. I have a scene that I know needs inserting at the start of bk 2, and I could do that now. But I also have a list of things and a stack of cards detailing changes that need to be made in bk 1. I know even more things will need changing by the time I get to the end of the trilogy, so the practical part of me says to write on and make changes at the end of having draft one. I don't *think* I have anything in the current list of changes that derails the plot, so I *can* keep on writing. I just don't know if I should. *sigh*
Hmmm. This is less of a snippet and more a glimpse into the brain of a troubled writer.
Anyone what to share what they would do if they were in my writing boots? :P
Instead I will speak of my writing progress. I decided to reread volume one of Witherwilds. I'm happy to say that I was quite into it at the end of the story (maybe from a little before the 2/3 mark),. The downside of that, of course, is I have a lot of work to do on the opening. If the story, which I obviously like and feel is worth writing, did not engage my interest enough to be impossible to put down, it will not engage a uninvested reader.
At this point, I'm trying to decide if I should go back to the beginning and fix book one or charge on with bk 2. I have a scene that I know needs inserting at the start of bk 2, and I could do that now. But I also have a list of things and a stack of cards detailing changes that need to be made in bk 1. I know even more things will need changing by the time I get to the end of the trilogy, so the practical part of me says to write on and make changes at the end of having draft one. I don't *think* I have anything in the current list of changes that derails the plot, so I *can* keep on writing. I just don't know if I should. *sigh*
Hmmm. This is less of a snippet and more a glimpse into the brain of a troubled writer.
Anyone what to share what they would do if they were in my writing boots? :P
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Date: 13 Jan 2013 11:39 pm (UTC)If I thought the fixes required for book one were not too time consuming--if I knew what I wanted to do and thought I could do it pretty quickly--I might do that. Buut, I would worry about losing forward momentum, and with a really big project, there are chances that by the very end, what you want to do with the beginning is going to change even more. By the end of the third book, you may want an even different-er beginning, if you take my meaning. I think what I'd like to think I'd do is make a note at the beginning part about what my thoughts were now about how to revise it, then *leave* it and plow on ahead.
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Date: 14 Jan 2013 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2013 06:04 pm (UTC)And yeah, revision notes are our friends. :P
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Date: 14 Jan 2013 01:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 14 Jan 2013 06:01 pm (UTC)So, onwards it is. Go, forward momentum, go!