2008-12-18

More Words and Rearranging and...

So I was typing away a few days ago and realized that my Chapter 7 was like the Energizer Bunny: It kept going and going and going...

What to do?

I decided to leave it alone for a few days, to let it all simmer in my brain. I finally decided to cut out a lot of words pertaining to Viv taking Rita to Viv's work location (a really crappy publisher, one bought and started by good ol' mommy for her two wunderkinds).

But something at first funny, then more ominous, happens. I wanted to end this chapter with the ominous thing.

So, yesterday, I moved most of the stuff about going to work to another tab - so I can use those words if I think I need them. I typed about 350 new words, rearranged a few things, and voila! It's now the way I like it (for the moment, naturally).

Chapter 8 is one of the best chapters I've ever written - if I so humbly say myself (okay, so I'm not so modest/humble about that!). It's having to deal with a death, and in a strange way for Rita...

Love and kisses,

~Nancy Beck
Posted by Nancy Beck at 12:19 PM
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2 comments:

Angie said...

That happened to me to, with my current WIP, back in October. I was writing this one scene that was supposed to be the beginning of... Chapter 9, I think, and it just kept going and going and going.... O_O Luckily this is a freebie being posted As I Write for an eager audience [cough] so I pulled it out, posted it as a separate novelette (17K words [headdesk]) and kept going with the main story.

For a commercial book, though, it would've been a lot tougher. It's an important episode in the two main characters' history together, but having a single incident that huge doesn't at all fit the pattern of how the main story is flowing. I have no idea how I'd work that. Just as well it's not meant for publication. [wry smile]

Angie

8:07 AM
Nancy Beck said...

So I'm not the only one. ;-)

And just when I thought I had my head/mind around it...

9:43 AM

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