No love from Austin
I received my annual “Thanks, but no thanks!” letter from Austin today. A sample, for the curious: Thank you for submitting your script, Double Feature, to the Austin Film Festival’s 2006 Screenplay Competition. This year we received over 4,000...Version control, don’t fail me now!
Somehow, the story I sent Ann Crispin was missing a line I thought was in there. No wonder she didn’t notice it. 😉 It must be part of the conversion from Open Office format to rich text format. Note to self: Do not maintain too many versions of a story in too...Oh, sweet validation!
Ann Crispin recommended The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman for her writer’s workshop. The chapter on subtlety was sweet, sweet validation. Yeah, sure, I’ve been known to overdo it on occasion. I’d rather understate than write the scene where...Note to Self:
It’s fine to have a programmer’s aesthetic when writing fiction. Just make sure you declare your variables and functions up at the top. 😉Sigh.
Deciding a scene needs to be moved to the beginning of the story is one thing, but then there’s rewriting every scene that came after. Oops. But as long as it makes the story better, that’s more important than an increasing wordcount…...Whoa.
So, I went to introduce the love interest, and… This scene needs to open the book. I just accidentally incorporated information that used to occur in an unlovely infodump that I planned to edit out later. No, really, I didn’t plan it, but it works. I love...*hangs head*
I’m kind of… …not writing. I suspect I’m less well prepared for my novel than I thought I was–I’ve been opening the document file and staring at it and closing it without adding anything new. Perhaps making the outline a bit clearer...Paradigm shift.
Now that I’m working on a novel, I keep having to tell myself to slow down, that I have plenty of room. I’m not convinced it’s working. In fact, I think I’m going to have to go back and flesh stuff out. I’ve got stuff in here that’s...Coping with novel anxiety.
I actually have… an outline. And the motivational spreadsheet of doom to track my wordcount. And… version control. Yes, version control, like programmers use. Why, yes, I am a geek. But I could have used version control sooner–I realized at one point...Subscribe
