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1.5K words is excellent. I get the revving in neutral thing, though. I’m just idling at the moment. I feel like I used to write pretty linearly, and now that I have no outside expectations I just write the fun scenes and then try to fill in around them. Which I do not recommend as a strategy for a strong, cohesive story. Eh, anyway, good morning, and also it kinda sounds like the Dude’s aunt pulled a Norasol on you. So there’s that.
I sometimes do that, with the fun scenes and then getting stuck on the fill-in. In fact I do that a whole lot. I surely do not recommend it, no. I’m in that state currently with the end of Home Out In The Wind– I got so exhausted I did that really carelessly here at the end and the whole thing is so badly structured and I really don’t think there’s a single bit of chapter 6 I can reuse. It’s all got to be rebuilt and I can only salvage occasional phrases and premises, but the scenes as written just won’t work at all even rearranged. Sigh.
I don’t think she pulled a Norasol? She’s not nearly well-informed enough to do so; I don’t think Dude’s spoken to her in a year or more. Not because they’re fighting, they’re just really not close. She just gave me something to laughingly text Dude about. And then get slightly freaked-out, because he didn’t text back. But I figured he had his phone in the other room, and I was right when he eventually did text back. But i had a moment, where I was like, Does Aunt Medusa Know Something I Don’t.
No, as it happens, but. It’s become a running family joke that Dude’s mother hears about his life achievements from the newspaper, not from him. (He used to work for a newspaper. Like, uh, ten years ago. It’s an old joke.)
1.5K words is excellent. I get the revving in neutral thing, though. I’m just idling at the moment. I feel like I used to write pretty linearly, and now that I have no outside expectations I just write the fun scenes and then try to fill in around them. Which I do not recommend as a strategy for a strong, cohesive story. Eh, anyway, good morning, and also it kinda sounds like the Dude’s aunt pulled a Norasol on you. So there’s that.
I sometimes do that, with the fun scenes and then getting stuck on the fill-in. In fact I do that a whole lot. I surely do not recommend it, no. I’m in that state currently with the end of Home Out In The Wind– I got so exhausted I did that really carelessly here at the end and the whole thing is so badly structured and I really don’t think there’s a single bit of chapter 6 I can reuse. It’s all got to be rebuilt and I can only salvage occasional phrases and premises, but the scenes as written just won’t work at all even rearranged. Sigh.
I don’t think she pulled a Norasol? She’s not nearly well-informed enough to do so; I don’t think Dude’s spoken to her in a year or more. Not because they’re fighting, they’re just really not close. She just gave me something to laughingly text Dude about. And then get slightly freaked-out, because he didn’t text back. But I figured he had his phone in the other room, and I was right when he eventually did text back. But i had a moment, where I was like, Does Aunt Medusa Know Something I Don’t.
No, as it happens, but. It’s become a running family joke that Dude’s mother hears about his life achievements from the newspaper, not from him. (He used to work for a newspaper. Like, uh, ten years ago. It’s an old joke.)
