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So like. OK. Home out in the Wind is up to chapter 6 of 9 and (if this is a spoiler you haven’t been paying attention) Finn and Poe have banged, and I feel like a great weight is off my shoulders. (Most of the writing process was me figuring out WHY THEY HAVEN’T BANGED YET. So.)
I changed a detail in chapter 3 or so that has broken chapter 7, so I have a ton of work to do for next week. It’s, ughhhhh, the kind of thing where like… I removed an incident that was redundant, but it had a couple of slightly different features to it that I then mentioned later. And the later mentions can’t just be redirected to the similar incident. So I need to figure out what can stand in for those. And that means rewriting whole conversations to get the same plot beats done. Also in chapter 6 I added a conversation that is now semi-redundant with a conversation in chapter 7; those characters now need to hit some different notes in that conversation. All of which is to say, I need to redo just one scene really. But I don’t wanna, wahh, because it’s not like creating new, it’s picking up a bunch of dropped stitches and weaving them back in without changing anything else or contradicting anything earlier. And if I pull on the wrong thing, it’ll unravel and collapse the whole thing.
Naturally, instead, I want to write Shara Bey and Kes Dameron’s courtship and early marriage. Of course I do.
“Where’s my baby?” Shara asked.
“I knew it,” Kes said. “You love him more than me.”
“I,” Shara said, “you piece of shit, you’re a grown-ass man who can take care of himself and he is a tiny thing that I made out of my own body, and I’ve already greeted you. I want to know where my baby is.”
So like. OK. Home out in the Wind is up to chapter 6 of 9 and (if this is a spoiler you haven’t been paying attention) Finn and Poe have banged, and I feel like a great weight is off my shoulders. (Most of the writing process was me figuring out WHY THEY HAVEN’T BANGED YET. So.)
I changed a detail in chapter 3 or so that has broken chapter 7, so I have a ton of work to do for next week. It’s, ughhhhh, the kind of thing where like… I removed an incident that was redundant, but it had a couple of slightly different features to it that I then mentioned later. And the later mentions can’t just be redirected to the similar incident. So I need to figure out what can stand in for those. And that means rewriting whole conversations to get the same plot beats done. Also in chapter 6 I added a conversation that is now semi-redundant with a conversation in chapter 7; those characters now need to hit some different notes in that conversation. All of which is to say, I need to redo just one scene really. But I don’t wanna, wahh, because it’s not like creating new, it’s picking up a bunch of dropped stitches and weaving them back in without changing anything else or contradicting anything earlier. And if I pull on the wrong thing, it’ll unravel and collapse the whole thing.
Naturally, instead, I want to write Shara Bey and Kes Dameron’s courtship and early marriage. Of course I do.
“Where’s my baby?” Shara asked.
“I knew it,” Kes said. “You love him more than me.”
“I,” Shara said, “you piece of shit, you’re a grown-ass man who can take care of himself and he is a tiny thing that I made out of my own body, and I’ve already greeted you. I want to know where my baby is.”
