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Mar. 23rd, 2011 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fufarawIt occurs to me this journal has been both silent and inactive, so here's an update.
My BB is at nearly 36,000 words, with several key scenes and many minor ones still to write, though almost all have at least a few lines of description, narrative, or dialog in place, to be expanded later. Several of the scenes written have too much detail and need to be streamlined. As is usual for me, I'll be removing nearly as much--well, it feels that way--as I add before the deadline.
I have one scene that needs rewritten to reflect a plot change, but I need and want to keep the scene--it's a character-defining scene.
I've decided, after attempting several times to write a linear narrative, to stay with the movie-style jumps from scene to scene. For one thing, it eliminates a lot of boring "and then he said" and "they were out of milk so he went to the store.On the way he saw..." type of irrelevant and unnecessary wordage.Nobody cares. If they can't keep up with the jumps--which will be on a timeline, so it shouldn't be confusing--then they probably wouldn't grasp the story I'm trying to tell anyway.
The story is front-loaded, since that's where most of the conflict emerges, and where most of the characters dealing with the conflict, and working out how to deal is. The back nine is more frequent jump cuts, glimpses of how their lives progress, with not so much explanation and reaction. There are changes, though, that need to be noted as they happen. And my final scene is written. In fact, it was written first of all: the end point. All the rest is how we got there.
Onward.
My BB is at nearly 36,000 words, with several key scenes and many minor ones still to write, though almost all have at least a few lines of description, narrative, or dialog in place, to be expanded later. Several of the scenes written have too much detail and need to be streamlined. As is usual for me, I'll be removing nearly as much--well, it feels that way--as I add before the deadline.
I have one scene that needs rewritten to reflect a plot change, but I need and want to keep the scene--it's a character-defining scene.
I've decided, after attempting several times to write a linear narrative, to stay with the movie-style jumps from scene to scene. For one thing, it eliminates a lot of boring "and then he said" and "they were out of milk so he went to the store.On the way he saw..." type of irrelevant and unnecessary wordage.Nobody cares. If they can't keep up with the jumps--which will be on a timeline, so it shouldn't be confusing--then they probably wouldn't grasp the story I'm trying to tell anyway.
The story is front-loaded, since that's where most of the conflict emerges, and where most of the characters dealing with the conflict, and working out how to deal is. The back nine is more frequent jump cuts, glimpses of how their lives progress, with not so much explanation and reaction. There are changes, though, that need to be noted as they happen. And my final scene is written. In fact, it was written first of all: the end point. All the rest is how we got there.
Onward.
