wherein Liz defeats one writing objective
Ch. 17 of "Guardian" is DONE in rough draft!
Obviously I need to do a bunch of editing before I post the blasted thing, but still. Victory is mine! \o/
The draft is 4,075 words and I am pretty sure it will expand by another couple hundred as I fix up scenes 3 and 4. (Scene 4 needs less fixing than scene 3, but it wants a bit more descriptive setting detail and also I need to check canon to make sure I am writing Person X correctly.)
I am also considering whether to get this beta'ed. I haven't used betas for "Apartment Manager" or "Guardian" in the past -- or rather, I used LJ/Dreamwidth as a sort of collective beta -- but I don't know if that's as effective as it used to be, particularly considering the temporal gap between this chapter and the previous ones.
Eh. We'll see how I feel once I get through the initial round of edits and expansions. :)
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ETA: I also did a scene breakdown for ch. 18, and of course my little one-paragraph sketch outline changed a bunch as I worked to reconcile it with what actually happened in ch. 17, spread POVs evenly, and try not to disjoint the timeline. (In other words, scene 4 should happen after scene 3, which happens after scene 2, which happens after scene 1, whether they're in the same plot thread or not. I'm not perfect about this, but I do try.)
I am very glad I outlined this story back in the day, but I'm also glad that I didn't try to make the outline very detailed. This makes a nice balance between having a general sense of where I'm going (and how the various plot threads match up) and getting to surprise myself as I write. :)
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Obviously I need to do a bunch of editing before I post the blasted thing, but still. Victory is mine! \o/
The draft is 4,075 words and I am pretty sure it will expand by another couple hundred as I fix up scenes 3 and 4. (Scene 4 needs less fixing than scene 3, but it wants a bit more descriptive setting detail and also I need to check canon to make sure I am writing Person X correctly.)
I am also considering whether to get this beta'ed. I haven't used betas for "Apartment Manager" or "Guardian" in the past -- or rather, I used LJ/Dreamwidth as a sort of collective beta -- but I don't know if that's as effective as it used to be, particularly considering the temporal gap between this chapter and the previous ones.
Eh. We'll see how I feel once I get through the initial round of edits and expansions. :)
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ETA: I also did a scene breakdown for ch. 18, and of course my little one-paragraph sketch outline changed a bunch as I worked to reconcile it with what actually happened in ch. 17, spread POVs evenly, and try not to disjoint the timeline. (In other words, scene 4 should happen after scene 3, which happens after scene 2, which happens after scene 1, whether they're in the same plot thread or not. I'm not perfect about this, but I do try.)
I am very glad I outlined this story back in the day, but I'm also glad that I didn't try to make the outline very detailed. This makes a nice balance between having a general sense of where I'm going (and how the various plot threads match up) and getting to surprise myself as I write. :)
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