Revision Donkey - The Tale of Scenes
Dec. 30th, 2011 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caper_estKiller-Kate and Luke Lackland: Finished the big donkey-work project I need to begin my actual revision - namely, compiling a complete list of all 122 first-draft scenes, with the contents of each summarized in a sentence or short paragraph. Armed with this map, I'm ready to begin some actual revision at last, starting with the major structural and logical issues, and working down to successively finer levels of detail.
The 'Prelude to Revision' posts will be continued as and when I can, as commentary alongside the revision as it progresses. Just now, the sense of what I need to do is coming to me faster than I can articulate the whys and wherefores of it.
My first job is to go back through the Rising and the Embassy plotlines, and cause them to:
a) Make political and character sense, from the beginning, in the light of everything I learned before the end; and
b) Respect a consistent geography and calendar.
This is the hardest and iffiest job, since it involves proving the story's internal logic good, and must therefore be achieved first.
The 'Prelude to Revision' posts will be continued as and when I can, as commentary alongside the revision as it progresses. Just now, the sense of what I need to do is coming to me faster than I can articulate the whys and wherefores of it.
My first job is to go back through the Rising and the Embassy plotlines, and cause them to:
a) Make political and character sense, from the beginning, in the light of everything I learned before the end; and
b) Respect a consistent geography and calendar.
This is the hardest and iffiest job, since it involves proving the story's internal logic good, and must therefore be achieved first.
