If my loyal readers, all three of you, are wondering where I’ve been this past week, I’ll tell you. I’ve been completely re-writing a book that I thought was complete and ready to go.
We knew that the beginning was slow, and that we needed to pull people in a bit more quickly. We found a way to do it; now an event that took place “off-stage” as it were, in chapter 26, now takes place in full view of the readers in chapter 4. By moving this event so far forward, other events that are related to it need to be relocated as well. New linking scenes need to be written; some scenes that didn’t exist now need to be added. References elsewhere in the book need to be adapted. It’s fun, but it’s a lot of work!
It’s in some ways sort of like building blocks. Grab pages 116-117, cut and paste them into the middle of page 222, and smooth the transition out with a trowel…er…slight re-write. It’s going to be a much more entertaining book when it’s done. But it is kind of eating into my time.
Well, that and hurricane preparation…
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