Back to work

[deborahjross]

Post-Passover Paralysis has come and gone. Found that I could hang out in Rose's room and watch director's commentary for BACK TO THE FUTURE and noodle around with plot sticky-points to get me going again. Interesting how listening to someone else's slightly different creative process can give insights into where to do with my own writing.

All kinds of cool ideas, including one scary one, making an otherwise likable character have done Something Awful. I remind myself I have tackled unsympathetic POV characters before and one of the themes is Making Restitution. Means thwacking away at some earlier stuff, but that is utterly appropriate at this stage of revision.

Okay, lots of work to do, with the hope that these ideas will pan out to be as nifty as they seem at the moment. And if not, more noodling and shoving and cutting and adding and fine-tuning until it does work. It strikes me that revision is an utter leap of faith that I will eventually reach the right place. And know it, so I don't go beyond and drum the life out of the story or condense so much the reader gets whiplash.

Comments

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

You will reach the right place. It's funny how some folks just hate doing revisions. I kinda like them...especially when the story all just suddenly comes together.

[manawolf.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Something Awful is a website. Took me a second to realize you weren't talking about them. XD

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

great to see your phosphors! No, I was just struck by authorial Capitalization. A minor ailment, but transitory. At least I don't do it in the text!