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Mar. 3rd, 2006 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady74,049 in one document
(about 3,000 of which is reused from a very old draft-- I am so proud of my thriftiness)
1500ish in the other document, about 700ish of which is reused from the next-most-recent draft-- I'd expected that.
Still haven't closed the gap that'll let me paste in the 40,000-word sequential bit yet, though.
And today I've added only dribs and drabs, but a few gapfills here and there, and some good resolutions to ragged scenes that had ended because i didn't know what else to do, rather than because they were done.
I started a list of loose ends I've left waving, though, and they're formidable. I mean, extremely. A few small things-- I mention that he's worried about his horse, but then later have the horse be fine, with no bit where his worries are laid to rest. Don't know where to work it in either, because, well, he finds out that his horse is fine but his father is dead, not to be spoilerish. I think one rather eclipses the other.
Another loose end: I have a minor character rather badly wounded, but I never make anything of it. POV char expresses concern, but then moves on and I haven't got time to mention him again.
Other loose ends, however, include red herrings about plot aspects I have since changed, and then there are issues raised by reusing from earlier drafts. And then there's the thought I've just had that I'm poorly reflecting my own feelings of overwhelmedness into the POV character, who's consistently overwhelmed by every event in the book and it's probably painful to read, not that I've noticed...
*dies*
There is too much information in this book. I have too much invested in it and it's too poorly-organized. I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'm just trying to get through and have everything happen that needs to happen. But I revisited the climax last night and realized that while I have a lot written of the leadup, nothing of the actual ending is done. That's kind of painful, as it means I'm nowhere near as done as I thought.
Not that I don't think I'll finish it and it'll be great somehow. I don't, surely. But Jesus, I could be doing a lot better.
I look back at when I thought I could get this thing knocked together by mid-February and I just laugh and laugh.
Somewhat relatedly, I feel like I owe a lot of people a lot of comments and emails. I feel like I'm far behind and not keeping up my end of communications a lot. But I just don't have the time or the brainspace to figure out who, what, or when. I am sorry. Someday I will have a brain again.
(about 3,000 of which is reused from a very old draft-- I am so proud of my thriftiness)
1500ish in the other document, about 700ish of which is reused from the next-most-recent draft-- I'd expected that.
Still haven't closed the gap that'll let me paste in the 40,000-word sequential bit yet, though.
And today I've added only dribs and drabs, but a few gapfills here and there, and some good resolutions to ragged scenes that had ended because i didn't know what else to do, rather than because they were done.
I started a list of loose ends I've left waving, though, and they're formidable. I mean, extremely. A few small things-- I mention that he's worried about his horse, but then later have the horse be fine, with no bit where his worries are laid to rest. Don't know where to work it in either, because, well, he finds out that his horse is fine but his father is dead, not to be spoilerish. I think one rather eclipses the other.
Another loose end: I have a minor character rather badly wounded, but I never make anything of it. POV char expresses concern, but then moves on and I haven't got time to mention him again.
Other loose ends, however, include red herrings about plot aspects I have since changed, and then there are issues raised by reusing from earlier drafts. And then there's the thought I've just had that I'm poorly reflecting my own feelings of overwhelmedness into the POV character, who's consistently overwhelmed by every event in the book and it's probably painful to read, not that I've noticed...
*dies*
There is too much information in this book. I have too much invested in it and it's too poorly-organized. I'm a bit overwhelmed. I'm just trying to get through and have everything happen that needs to happen. But I revisited the climax last night and realized that while I have a lot written of the leadup, nothing of the actual ending is done. That's kind of painful, as it means I'm nowhere near as done as I thought.
Not that I don't think I'll finish it and it'll be great somehow. I don't, surely. But Jesus, I could be doing a lot better.
I look back at when I thought I could get this thing knocked together by mid-February and I just laugh and laugh.
Somewhat relatedly, I feel like I owe a lot of people a lot of comments and emails. I feel like I'm far behind and not keeping up my end of communications a lot. But I just don't have the time or the brainspace to figure out who, what, or when. I am sorry. Someday I will have a brain again.
