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another stroll along the writing process
Dec. 29th, 2010 10:02 pmAs 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.