Writing what I can
Just finished a session digging into "leftover material" that went back years. I haven't looked at it in a while because I didn't want the current draft of the first 50 pages veering off into old material, old ideas, that may not work now.
Still.
There are nearly 150 pages (more than 30,000 words) of notes, scenes, bits of scenes, ideas for scenes and characters. I scanned through looking for bits and pieces to bring forward. I went through all the pages. Mostly.
I brought forward maybe 2 pages of material for different part of the novel. And also some epigraph material.
I spent only 45 minutes or so, but it felt much longer. It was tiring.
I don't want to get too ahead of the material. I want the story to grow organically from the characters coming together in the story, in the events they're living. I have to give them time to do this. Be who--show who--they are.
There are still three small notebooks of 100 pages each to go through. Written over the past 4 years or so.
Still.
There are nearly 150 pages (more than 30,000 words) of notes, scenes, bits of scenes, ideas for scenes and characters. I scanned through looking for bits and pieces to bring forward. I went through all the pages. Mostly.
I brought forward maybe 2 pages of material for different part of the novel. And also some epigraph material.
I spent only 45 minutes or so, but it felt much longer. It was tiring.
I don't want to get too ahead of the material. I want the story to grow organically from the characters coming together in the story, in the events they're living. I have to give them time to do this. Be who--show who--they are.
There are still three small notebooks of 100 pages each to go through. Written over the past 4 years or so.
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