That’s about as bad as fiction-writing worst cases get, though, and I’m not eager to do that. Worst case, I’ll end up writing a completely new novel. I did some brainstorming in the shower on how I can save as much of what I remember of the story as possible WITHOUT breaking what I did in the first two books, or the last two. But I’m going to do a complete read through, just in case.Īnd then… oh, yippee… I’m going to pick up the plot I started on page one, and broke on page 60, and I’m going to replot.Īnd then be grateful that I did not pursue any of the new characters or worldbuilding in the latter part of this novel in either Book Four or Book Five. I’m going to assume there will be nothing. So now I’m going to read the rest of what I’ve written in this book with an eye toward finding anything I can save. Starting on manuscript page 61, I went in exactly the wrong direction, dropped the really good local character I had in place for one who broke my otherwise tight worldbuilding through two novels and the start of this one all to shit, threw in a bunch of stuff that widens the scope of one small, tightly bordered town by five… count ‘em… FIVE whole planets.Īnd while it doesn’t QUITE go as far as “anything can happen, so nothing matters”, it sure a shit doesn’t stay inside the original premise of the series, which is that the things that happen in this one small town can affect the universe… BUT they can only EVER happen inside the physical boundaries of this one small town. The first sixty pages of Ohio 3 held up fine.
THIS process is not going to be in any new class coming your way from me. And to get BETTER results, and consequently better novels, you have to experiment.Īnd the person looking at the new processes, and experimenting, is the one upon whom they explode. I also invent and test new processes, because if you do the same thing every time, you get the same results every time. There are folks saying, “But you teach classes on how to write novels.” Today… plotting worksheet and tight focus. So now, I’m going back and figuring out how to keep all the epic stuff, the sensawunda stuff, the glorious terrifying magic and the really creepy evil…
The plot, however, got eaten by volemarines and vile scunners in the process. So… when Epic Sense of Wonder crept past me while I was being a good girl and following the plot, my hunting brain caught the scent… It, however, lacked the sort of epic sense of wonder that made my heart beat faster while I was writing it. I had a line-for scene plot for the book built out. Matt, however, is really, really good at what he does.Īnd he discovered that while the story is a lot of fun, what it doesn’t have is a strong story through-line. It was fun for me to read, and I made myself laugh a bunch of times, got a little teary-eyed, did a light revision and passed it off to my Editor. A lot of awesome world stuff, some wonderfully funny scenes, some pretty scary scenes. Book 2 has a lot of salvageable material.
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