Revision Scene 6: Epic Suck
Jun. 26th, 2012 08:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caper_estThat would be both my protagonists' lives, and my feelings about the prose that bears them along, at this point. Meh!
I fixed a big bundle of inconsistencies concerning the state of Kate's health in the early story, and discovered that the answer I finally happened on had been lurking unnoticed in the text all along. I failed to plant a Chekhov's Suitcase Nuke in this scene, so I'm hoping to wedge it into the next one.
This is the part of the book where I got stuck for a year and turned to gentler work, before taking up the original telling again. It's all in this week's quota, and it's nearly as brutal to revise as it was to write. Next week will be Purgatorio to this section's Inferno, and after that - Fairfields, which is not even the Earthly Paradise but will do until something better comes along. So at least I've got some motivation to stick to my timetable!
I fixed a big bundle of inconsistencies concerning the state of Kate's health in the early story, and discovered that the answer I finally happened on had been lurking unnoticed in the text all along. I failed to plant a Chekhov's Suitcase Nuke in this scene, so I'm hoping to wedge it into the next one.
This is the part of the book where I got stuck for a year and turned to gentler work, before taking up the original telling again. It's all in this week's quota, and it's nearly as brutal to revise as it was to write. Next week will be Purgatorio to this section's Inferno, and after that - Fairfields, which is not even the Earthly Paradise but will do until something better comes along. So at least I've got some motivation to stick to my timetable!
