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started a new project today
SCARPA:
I am beginning to be grateful for mistakes.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
First chapter mostly fixed, second chapter done, 8000 words in.
SCARPA:
Good job! Right now Im on 35,676 words edited so far. Total length is about 60,000.
LizW65:
Did the unthinkable today and ditched approx. 50% of my Work In Progress.
I should explain; in my original concept, the novel consisted of roughly half present-day story and half flashbacks to a related story that took place five years previously.
The idea was that the parallel stories would tie together at the end and everything would wrap up neatly--however, something just wasn't working, the story wasn't engaging me at all, and I couldn't get my head around what was wrong. Finally, as I was dropping off to sleep last night it hit me: I really don't need the flashbacks in order to make the story work,at least not to the extent that I was using them--they actually drag the narrative down and make it a lot weaker.
So today, I removed all the flashbacks to another folder and am in the process of re-working the present-day narrative. Sure, I've lost about two months of work, but I'm feeling very positive about it now--and I've discovered that my first two flashbacks combined make a cool origin short story, so all is not lost.
meg_evonne:
Word count bump LOL I'm now cutting my 3 to 1.5 page synopsis down to 1. I love your comment Neuro about, "If I could have written the book in two pages, I would have." It makes me know that I'm not alone.
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