Making Progress
Rough drafts are just what the name implies: rough. That's a good thing with this third book in the Hazel Whitmore series.
First Problem: Hazel gets her chicks. So? This must feed into the story line somewhere. Where?
Second Problem: Hazel learns to shoot. So? I may have an inkling where this feeds into the story. Maybe.
Third Problem: I keep getting the impression my timing is screwy. Maybe I should get that calendar out, at least for the rewrite.
Fourth Problem: The other two books in the series ran around 50,000 words. This one is much shorter. Maybe fixing all the problems will fix this one too. I hope.
Plot holes abound.
The plot does continue to unfold. My main antagonist turns out to not be the antagonist, only the red herring. So now I have to be sure the real antagonist doesn't become a deus ex machina.
Problems abound. But this is the rough draft. Rough drafts are written to be fixed, smoothed and polished.
It's nice when they aren't quite so rough.
First Problem: Hazel gets her chicks. So? This must feed into the story line somewhere. Where?
Second Problem: Hazel learns to shoot. So? I may have an inkling where this feeds into the story. Maybe.
Third Problem: I keep getting the impression my timing is screwy. Maybe I should get that calendar out, at least for the rewrite.
Fourth Problem: The other two books in the series ran around 50,000 words. This one is much shorter. Maybe fixing all the problems will fix this one too. I hope.
Plot holes abound.
The plot does continue to unfold. My main antagonist turns out to not be the antagonist, only the red herring. So now I have to be sure the real antagonist doesn't become a deus ex machina.
Problems abound. But this is the rough draft. Rough drafts are written to be fixed, smoothed and polished.
It's nice when they aren't quite so rough.
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Apr 22, 2014 02:56PM
I've always had problems with my characters turning out to be more than I thought when I first typed them into life. Antagonists end up with human sides and protagonists have their shadows and foibles. It's what makes writing such an adventure, I suppose.
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