cathschaffstump | That Novel Progress Thing (Reply)

Tonight I cut two scenes. They were DULL, and things are much more interesting if I don't blurt the obvious and/or the stereotypical at you. I made two scenes more ambiguous and precise at the same time. Then I moved a scene from chapter six into chapter four that should result in wonderful misunderstandings.

Chapter 3 is now ready for my chapter readers. Tomorrow I leave the college at 11 for my writing session (11-2 out writing tomorrow). I intend to do the first modified version of trolls versus dwarfs (the moved chapter six scene), as well as spiff up the troll/godmother council of war, with already suggested clarifications from Yolanda.

In chapter 5, there will be four revised scenes which should be easy to fix. So, while chapter 4 will not be ready until Wednesday, chapter 5 may well be ready tomorrow. It would be nice if I could get the next three chapters ready for reading before I go off to Springfield. That would mean I was halfway finished with the novel, draft 2. I would accept that as progress to be happy about.

There's a lot of emotional tension and clarifications to be done to chapters six, seven, and eight, the chapters that need the most work, especially given the modifications in chapters four and five. I don't want to ignore the emotional angles, but I don't want to get bogged down in them either.

There's that big battle sequence for chapter nine too. Which needs to be streeetttched...

Oh well. Those are problems mostly for April.

At least I'm not Earbrassing, as I was Friday. I was really down because my rough draft is so crappy. At times like these, I've got to remember Professor Boston's fertilizer analogy.

Time for vegetation.

Catherine

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