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felis_ultharusPars Primae
Editing my novel slowed to a crawl -- sometimes as little as half a page a day -- and I realized the reason.
About 75% of the novel is perfect -- it merely needs minor adjustments of word choice and word order, and the ironing out of slight continuity issues. Some chunks could be removed, but large swathes of it are publishable. I've been considering reading one section at this thing Concordia's having for English students.
Problem is, the other 25% needs a total rewrite. Unfortunately, that 25% is basically every scene that features my villain because that villain just isn't working at all. I have to build that back up from scratch.
All is not despair, however. A minor villain seems eager to take his place. Actually, she's been a major villain in a few short stories, and showed up as a minor villain in my last novel. She was the only one who made the migration between novels. Seems she can't bear to be left out :)
Her style is very different from the first, but I think she'll be a lot more interesting.
Pars Secunda
Doesn't Tottel's Miscellany sound like a curio shop that sell magical devices in a cobblestone alley in a part of London that only appears during certain phases of the moon? No...? You people are no fun.
Editing my novel slowed to a crawl -- sometimes as little as half a page a day -- and I realized the reason.
About 75% of the novel is perfect -- it merely needs minor adjustments of word choice and word order, and the ironing out of slight continuity issues. Some chunks could be removed, but large swathes of it are publishable. I've been considering reading one section at this thing Concordia's having for English students.
Problem is, the other 25% needs a total rewrite. Unfortunately, that 25% is basically every scene that features my villain because that villain just isn't working at all. I have to build that back up from scratch.
All is not despair, however. A minor villain seems eager to take his place. Actually, she's been a major villain in a few short stories, and showed up as a minor villain in my last novel. She was the only one who made the migration between novels. Seems she can't bear to be left out :)
Her style is very different from the first, but I think she'll be a lot more interesting.
Pars Secunda
Doesn't Tottel's Miscellany sound like a curio shop that sell magical devices in a cobblestone alley in a part of London that only appears during certain phases of the moon? No...? You people are no fun.
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Date: 2006-02-15 06:01 am (UTC)I bow to your superior skill in Latin. In my defence, though, I merely lifted the phrases out of the very bad Latin you often find sprinkled in Medieval English texts.
*glad to see you*
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Date: 2006-02-15 06:53 am (UTC)And ya I.... have fallen off the face of the earth it seems x_x
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Date: 2006-02-17 03:27 pm (UTC)I've done some purely superficial reading on chakras. And of course, monks can use chakra power to heal themselves in Final Fantasy games :)