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I say this a lot, I suppose, considering that it is in my little drop down list of post titles. The last few days I have been writing more. I have two spots in my novel where I am actively writing ---> the beginning, and the middle. When I started writing again, I couldn't remember where I had left off, so I thought a good thing would be to read from the start and see where the story took me.
It tripped and fell flat on its face after the first couple of paragraphs. And so I started re-writing. I know that I shouldn't do this, that I should wait until I have it all out of my head and on paper before I start polishing, but dammit! I can't abide crap! LOL Well, it wasn't that bad, but it certainly wasn't up to the level that I am at now. I keep all the parts that have been re-written, though. They show me where I was when I first started this story oh, about ten years ago now, I guess.
I love that I have grown out of writing scenes. Or grown in to making them much more seamless. I don't need to 'add a scene' to let you better get to know a character anymore. You know them because Ella knows them. The world is more realistic despite the fact that my knowledge of 18th century Scotland is limited. I have a time line now for the novel that I didn't have before. When I first started writing this story, I could let things go on for weeks or months, and it wouldn't really matter. Now, I am working with days, where every hour actually does count. And it works for me.
This past decade has really given me a lot in the way of learning my craft (well, one of my many, anyway). My story is more ... mature, I guess than it used to be, and the characters are more like people rather than just flat caricatures meant to make the main character look good. Ella doesn't get to be invincible, and she doesn't get any extra talents of prowess to make up for her short comings. She's got to get by on her wits and charm. And when that doesn't work, she takes her lumps like the rest of us.
I think that makes her a more attractive character. She's real now, in a way she wasn't before. She has a lot more lumps to come, and a lot of weird stuff that is really outside the scope of her experience, but I have some good things in store for her too ... or maybe they are just more complications that she doesn't need. I am kind of a bitch when I am playing Fate ;)
Gotta get ready for work now. And get a bit more writing in before I go.
--Phae
It tripped and fell flat on its face after the first couple of paragraphs. And so I started re-writing. I know that I shouldn't do this, that I should wait until I have it all out of my head and on paper before I start polishing, but dammit! I can't abide crap! LOL Well, it wasn't that bad, but it certainly wasn't up to the level that I am at now. I keep all the parts that have been re-written, though. They show me where I was when I first started this story oh, about ten years ago now, I guess.
I love that I have grown out of writing scenes. Or grown in to making them much more seamless. I don't need to 'add a scene' to let you better get to know a character anymore. You know them because Ella knows them. The world is more realistic despite the fact that my knowledge of 18th century Scotland is limited. I have a time line now for the novel that I didn't have before. When I first started writing this story, I could let things go on for weeks or months, and it wouldn't really matter. Now, I am working with days, where every hour actually does count. And it works for me.
This past decade has really given me a lot in the way of learning my craft (well, one of my many, anyway). My story is more ... mature, I guess than it used to be, and the characters are more like people rather than just flat caricatures meant to make the main character look good. Ella doesn't get to be invincible, and she doesn't get any extra talents of prowess to make up for her short comings. She's got to get by on her wits and charm. And when that doesn't work, she takes her lumps like the rest of us.
I think that makes her a more attractive character. She's real now, in a way she wasn't before. She has a lot more lumps to come, and a lot of weird stuff that is really outside the scope of her experience, but I have some good things in store for her too ... or maybe they are just more complications that she doesn't need. I am kind of a bitch when I am playing Fate ;)
Gotta get ready for work now. And get a bit more writing in before I go.
--Phae
