![]() ![]() ![]() I'm already poking around in parts three and four for story threads I can cut without sacrificing the good stuff. Meaning I'm already 600+ words over, and this was supposed to be one of the short bits. (I dunno, maybe I can give more POV stuff to Jonesy? Let him be a bit more intense and vivid about it? After all, he's the one to whom the early action is personal on a level beyond "hey, they're trying to kill us".)Ĭhapter 1 drafted. Here so far everything's contained and human-scale I need to figure out how to express something larger-than-life in a story which was deliberately conceived to be basically life-size. but in that case there was always an intensity to express both inside him and in the outrageous images around him. I'm dealing with a very contained POV character, which shouldn't be a problem for someone who wrote a book starring Number Six. I'm longing to write something with the kind of expressionistic fire I had fifteen years ago, but this can't be that story by its nature it's got to be stripped-back and less expressive. ![]() I'm currently about 400-500 words below my estimated length, which is good because the next few chapters are going to be longer. ![]() After the better part of a month off between Christmas and my parents' visit, I'm finally inching back into the saddle. ![]()
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