another stroll along the writing process
As part of my year end effort to organize myself for the big push next year, which will involve revising one very long novel and writing two others (if I can manage it, which I kind of doubt, but hope springs eternal), I am re-organizing files and folders within my Work folder.
I found this partial of a (as yet unposted) post, which I quote here in full:
another stroll along the writing process
I have two minor characters, let's call them A & B, one of whom is going to have to die. I'm having a spot of trouble choosing which one.
I have had an extended minor plot line in mind for A, which will be cut short, to say the least, if he gets offed now. However, if I kill B, who at this point is a fairly minor spear-carrier character, then a somewhat more important minor character, C, will be truly grieving, and I don't want to deal with that character's grief at the moment as I have too many other fish to fry.
Therefore, and because his death actually fits the inevitability of the situation better, I fear that A is about to cross the divide. Which is too bad, because he was going to be so useful in the other minor plot I had in mind, which cannot function in the way I had planned, without him.
So it goes, another day in the writer's life.
Back again in Dec 2010, I note that this was last saved in January 07. I have NO IDEA which two characters I am talking about, but I think I must have been writing Shadow Gate at the time. There are two obvious people it could have been, but at this remove I am not sure it entirely fits them because for the life of me I can't recall what the "extended minor plot line" was, to which I refer.
I can keep a lot of information in my head about my books, but I do find that once I have completed revisions and sent the book off into the cold cruel world, I tend to forget a lot of the twists and turns that went into creating it.
It's amusing, though, to read this entirely out of context, and to wonder what else I had intended to write on this venerable theme.
I found this partial of a (as yet unposted) post, which I quote here in full:
another stroll along the writing process
I have two minor characters, let's call them A & B, one of whom is going to have to die. I'm having a spot of trouble choosing which one.
I have had an extended minor plot line in mind for A, which will be cut short, to say the least, if he gets offed now. However, if I kill B, who at this point is a fairly minor spear-carrier character, then a somewhat more important minor character, C, will be truly grieving, and I don't want to deal with that character's grief at the moment as I have too many other fish to fry.
Therefore, and because his death actually fits the inevitability of the situation better, I fear that A is about to cross the divide. Which is too bad, because he was going to be so useful in the other minor plot I had in mind, which cannot function in the way I had planned, without him.
So it goes, another day in the writer's life.
Back again in Dec 2010, I note that this was last saved in January 07. I have NO IDEA which two characters I am talking about, but I think I must have been writing Shadow Gate at the time. There are two obvious people it could have been, but at this remove I am not sure it entirely fits them because for the life of me I can't recall what the "extended minor plot line" was, to which I refer.
I can keep a lot of information in my head about my books, but I do find that once I have completed revisions and sent the book off into the cold cruel world, I tend to forget a lot of the twists and turns that went into creating it.
It's amusing, though, to read this entirely out of context, and to wonder what else I had intended to write on this venerable theme.
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