Confusion has its place
Oct. 11th, 2010 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanThank you all so much for your kind comments to both of my previous posts.
When I posted about my deadline, I was moving a lot of scenes around in chapters 26, 27, and 28. I have finally escaped from that endless round, and am almost done with Chapter 29. My mother keeps asking me how many chapters there will be, and I keep telling her that I am not Steven Brust and I don't know. There are presently four unplundered chapters, the last four of what was once Volume 2 (and still is, I hasten to add, in multiple backups; nobody needs to fret about it). In the three-chapter adventure, I consolidated three trips into a market town into one, and I am now expanding a scene with a unicorn (you know there had to be at least one), after which I will consolidate two separate social events into one gigantic one. My main concerns about continuity at the moment have to do with an assigned essay that nobody writes -- how emblematic -- and a number of letters that must be either left out, in which case references to them have to be eradicated; or else inserted into different places in the narrative, their original places having been moved or deleted, in which case references to them have to be stabilized.
Of course, the bits I'm worrying about aren't the ones I'm worried about, if you follow me. I'm worried about the ones I'm not worried about because I've forgotten they are problematic.
Also, it is not going to be 100,000 words long. I'm hoping for no more than 130,000; and then it can be![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sdn's problem. I have to leave her something to do, after all.
Pamela
When I posted about my deadline, I was moving a lot of scenes around in chapters 26, 27, and 28. I have finally escaped from that endless round, and am almost done with Chapter 29. My mother keeps asking me how many chapters there will be, and I keep telling her that I am not Steven Brust and I don't know. There are presently four unplundered chapters, the last four of what was once Volume 2 (and still is, I hasten to add, in multiple backups; nobody needs to fret about it). In the three-chapter adventure, I consolidated three trips into a market town into one, and I am now expanding a scene with a unicorn (you know there had to be at least one), after which I will consolidate two separate social events into one gigantic one. My main concerns about continuity at the moment have to do with an assigned essay that nobody writes -- how emblematic -- and a number of letters that must be either left out, in which case references to them have to be eradicated; or else inserted into different places in the narrative, their original places having been moved or deleted, in which case references to them have to be stabilized.
Of course, the bits I'm worrying about aren't the ones I'm worried about, if you follow me. I'm worried about the ones I'm not worried about because I've forgotten they are problematic.
Also, it is not going to be 100,000 words long. I'm hoping for no more than 130,000; and then it can be
sdn's problem. I have to leave her something to do, after all.Pamela
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:24 pm (UTC)Hm. Some options.
1. Cut every other word.
2. Cut the first and last chapter.
3. Cut the last three chapters and throw in some vampires.
Aren't these GREAT ideas?
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:32 pm (UTC)2. Don't tempt me. That would be OH so literary.
3. I might do it if the vampires were librarians. Maybe.
P.
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:37 pm (UTC)2. Okay.
3. You do have a love triangle.
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Date: 2010-10-12 01:52 am (UTC)2. I think I'll let you throw them out, though, so I can maintain plausible deniability.
3. I think it's more like a pentangle.
P.
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Date: 2010-10-12 03:57 pm (UTC)Actually, can I have your editor over for tea with my thesis advisor?
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Date: 2010-10-13 01:08 am (UTC)I don't have a veto, either, actually. But I think that would be a very cool tea-meeting, and surprising to all parties involved.
P.
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Date: 2010-10-16 09:26 pm (UTC)Novels
Date: 2010-10-11 11:26 pm (UTC)Nate
Re: Novels
Date: 2010-10-11 11:30 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 01:52 am (UTC)P.
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Date: 2010-10-11 11:53 pm (UTC)Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-12 12:56 am (UTC)And I see you and
Stephanie Meyer notwithstanding, my theory is that vampires and werewolves are an exclusive-or thing. If you have one, you shouldn't have the other. And zombies can just stay in the grave where they belong.
Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-12 01:50 am (UTC)As for zombies, absolutely. That's a deal-breaker. I'd rather give back the money than write about zombies.
P.
Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-12 03:16 pm (UTC)Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-13 01:09 am (UTC)P.
Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-14 03:16 am (UTC)Had to google it, though, because my brain no longer retrieves information, just gives me the nigglingly familiar feeling . . .
Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-12 11:22 pm (UTC)Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-13 01:09 am (UTC)P.
Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-13 02:33 am (UTC)Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-13 07:02 am (UTC)Re: Confusion has its place
Date: 2010-10-14 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-12 03:54 pm (UTC)I'll drink tea to that :)