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Writing is Okay, Re-writing Sucks
Nov. 10th, 2008 02:29 pmAfter my first readers took a look at Space Rescue, the latest novel cluttering up the hard drive, I found myself forced to do a serious re-write. What happened was:
1) One POV character went from "forced to be bad by circumstances" to "wanna-be Evil Mastermind (In Her Own Mind)." This led to:
2) A need to rewrite all of her chapters. (Yeah, d'uh!) Except she'd done something stupid which allowed the good guys to find out where she was. But now that she was a Bad Guy, she wouldn't do. This led to:
3) A rewrite of more chapters, in which the Good Guys do plain-ole-fashioned detective work in lieu of getting information handed to them.
If this looks like a row of dominoes, it should. I guess that's a sign I'm doing better as a writer - if things weren't interweaved, the story would be off.
In addition to the above mess, I have a too-quick "commit to action" for one of my characters. That's tomorrow'shigh-pitched whine blog post.
1) One POV character went from "forced to be bad by circumstances" to "wanna-be Evil Mastermind (In Her Own Mind)." This led to:
2) A need to rewrite all of her chapters. (Yeah, d'uh!) Except she'd done something stupid which allowed the good guys to find out where she was. But now that she was a Bad Guy, she wouldn't do. This led to:
3) A rewrite of more chapters, in which the Good Guys do plain-ole-fashioned detective work in lieu of getting information handed to them.
If this looks like a row of dominoes, it should. I guess that's a sign I'm doing better as a writer - if things weren't interweaved, the story would be off.
In addition to the above mess, I have a too-quick "commit to action" for one of my characters. That's tomorrow's
