Oh, damn

[desperance]

So I spent all weekend working on my new chapter, when I wasn't making chutney; and I wrote half a dozen pages of what was Deep and Grim and Meaningful, Compacted of Pure Thought and Insight.

And this morning it occurred to me that there was a whole nother way to cover the same territory and bring me to the same place, which would be - well, not exactly light and airy, but there would be action! and dialogue! and readers could pick stuff up on the hoof, which is a goodness, rather than having it dumped like a dead slab on their plate! (have I mixed that metaphor, or simply crossed my wires...?)

Whatever. I hate tearing up pages in mid-draft, but, yup. Go back and do it again. Sigh. I'm going for a walk.

Comments

[szandara.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think maybe you only need it for the especially tricky bits. Mostly the subtext/internal stuff goes on in your subconscious, but every once it a while it needs to get out on paper.

It's like the gnomes in the back room tapping on their little hammers to make beautiful things--you put them out front, by the glass cases, and the customers get nervous, because they're gnarled and cranky and grimy from bending over thier forges all day long. Every so often the gnomes want to go out and do the selling, but that's not their job. They need to stay in the back room with their hammers and tools and forges and make the pretty so you can display it all on velvet cushions of Action! and Dialogue! and Plot! And then we buy it and everybody's happy and the gnomes can eat chutney and drink wine and sing bawdy gnome songs all night long.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

*g* That's lovely - thank you!