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[desperance]

I have written five pages, and am much inclined to cry "That is enough!" and, oh, I don't know, go somewhere else and do something different.

But. I don't need to cook, I has bigos; and I can't settle down for the evening, as I am going out later, to meet up with friends and then be sung at in the grand manner, in candlelight, by the Russian Patriarchate Choir. Till midnight, I am hoping. I anticipate growling bass-lines and a shiver down the spine: I am uniquely susceptible to this kind of singing.

So, as I have another three hours before I need to leave, I really might as well open another bottle and carry on a bit longer. Find out just what these guys plan to do to those guys, in the shadows beneath the bridge, because, y'know. Right now? Haven't a clue.

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Ooh, choir sounds good. And yay five pages. I've finished a chapter and now just hsve to remember what I thought was due to happen next. (this will learn me to alternate viewpoints. How do you do it, Oh Great Guru of Up North? It is driving me nuts.)

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How do I do it? I drive myself nuts, obviously. Or, more often these days, I just have no idea what's due to happen next, because I don't even know who's up next to tell us about it. Simple alternation is easy; try five or six viewpoints. Or a dozen. With different stories ongoing in different locations, with an implied obligation to bring them all together at the end. That's always fun...

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LWG is multiple v/p, and there are sometimes several v/ps in any given chapter (but only one per scene, that being a Kari thing). But with Grass King I went and tied myself to a one chapter, one viewpoint structure (as you have in Bridge of Dreams) with the net result that I am always on the back foot with each new chapter, as I'm coming out of a different place. It get worse, too, as it has inter-capitular sections (which have ended up being numbered as chapters as Word couldn't cope) which are from various different v/ps *and* some of which are flashbacks. Headdesk, and next time I'm going back to multiple v/p at will.