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June 16, 2006
I GOT DEM SCENE-WRITING BLUES
Like the accumulation of shit in a cow pasture, work on Thirty Well Spent slowly but surely progresses.
Maybe that's not the most sterling metaphor I could have used, but it works, damn it.
I spent the earlier part of the week going over some short stories and researching several publications to send them to, publications that can and will cheerfully reject them. But regardless I'll cheerfully send them back out again.
Wednesday I finally finished a tough scene in chapter one. It was one of those that I didn't really want to write, not because it's a shitty scene, but because it's a bridge to a scene that I really want to write. What's written might not be the greatest thing I've ever crafted, but at least it's down on paper . . . er, the computer. I can always go back and rewrite it if I feel like it. Then on Thursday I polished the prologue, making it flow a lot better, and adding in a description of one of the main characters. That's one of those stupid things I can't believe I forgot to put in. I was so focused on getting the two characters' dialogue and interaction down that I left it out. Speaking of the prologue, I think I might just rename it Chapter One. It's sort of gotten away from what a prologue usually is thought of. You'll see what I'm talking about when I post it, probably sometime next week, the same time that the new layout will (hopefully) debut.
JAB
Posted by Josh at June 16, 2006 8:57 PM