We interrupt the collapse of "the just society" to bring you this important announcement

[felis_ultharus]

Meanwhile, outside of the ongoing collapse of the country, I am getting writing done. A lot of revision. I should be half finished the second revision tomorrow.

This brings me close to a difficult decision -- I have a long sequence in it that has very little to do with the story, and which is actually a true story I discovered during my researches of Canadian history. It does set mood, and touch tangenitally on themes, and is a good read.

But I worry it's larger irrelevance could hurt the story. The novel is already over-long.

Thoughts...?

Also, I really want to write a sonnet, now. Preferably in rhyme royal.

Comments

[metawidget]

If it's a good read, and if it can be read in one normal sitting, I'd go for it.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Okay. That's the advice I've been getting. I'm always worried about boring my writer -- I prefer to keep things quick.

I have to learn how to linger over a passage sometimes, I think.

[node357.livejournal.com]

IMHO, my favorite writer never worried about the attention span of her readers. Her primary concern seemed to be the story and its characters, however short or long their stint together might be. I say if this side-story does the main story justice, you should go for it. I personally like having some questions unanswered, like... "WTF did that have to do with anything, anyway?" :P

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Okay. Maybe I will :)

May I ask who your favourite writer is...?

[node357.livejournal.com]

Um.. *looks around nervously*
Anne Rice.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Bah. You don't have to be embarrassed. I like Anne Rice. I actually got into Grad school on the strength of my essay "Coming out of the Coffin: Vampirism as Homosexuality in Interview With a Vampire."

And I have a guilty pleasure in Poppy Z. Brite ^_^

Not entirely sure I'd want to read Rice's latest offering, though. Anne Rice as a fundamentalist Christian makes me wonder if the universe is broken. Who do you call to fix that?

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

I'd leave it in, be prepared to remove it should editors request you do so, and save it for the eventual director's cut version of the book after you make your way onto the reading lists of the intelligentsia, so they can look down their noses at those amongst their ranks who haven't read the extended version.

Literary tourists, pfft.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's what I decided. Thanks :)