Mixing Metaphors Monday
A River Runs Through It....my brain, that is.
Working on scenes lately for Attack of the Altar Girls. Rather than revise with the finished scene on the screen, I've been using the technique from the Darcy Pattison workshop. 1. Look over scene. 2. Re-write the scene in a new file. WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE ORIGINAL SCENE. It's working out so that my unconscious knows the whole story enough by now to slip in all sorts of crucial stuff, like the symbolism that's so needed in the sensory area.
Maybe it's like sewing. Alterations/mending vs. sewing something new. I guess if you've got the most recent file open, and you're just juggling the words, taking out and trying to shoehorn in, it's the same scene, with alterations. But with a total do-over, I can pick prettier cloth from the start and make something new. I'm hoping for less Frankenstein, more um, Godzilla? No that's not right. Or maybe it is!
I need some caffeine to make sense.
Working on scenes lately for Attack of the Altar Girls. Rather than revise with the finished scene on the screen, I've been using the technique from the Darcy Pattison workshop. 1. Look over scene. 2. Re-write the scene in a new file. WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE ORIGINAL SCENE. It's working out so that my unconscious knows the whole story enough by now to slip in all sorts of crucial stuff, like the symbolism that's so needed in the sensory area.
Maybe it's like sewing. Alterations/mending vs. sewing something new. I guess if you've got the most recent file open, and you're just juggling the words, taking out and trying to shoehorn in, it's the same scene, with alterations. But with a total do-over, I can pick prettier cloth from the start and make something new. I'm hoping for less Frankenstein, more um, Godzilla? No that's not right. Or maybe it is!
I need some caffeine to make sense.