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aamcnamara ([personal profile] aamcnamara) wrote2009-07-19 05:36 pm
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one more stride in the path

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These pendulumic feelings of alternately "There will never be enough to take up the rest of this novel!" and "There is way too much left in this novel for the next 7.5k!" are not going to go away, are they.
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[identity profile] cristalia.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
When you're me, that usually means you're in the last 15% of the book or so, and you run around tearing your hair for a week or three until you realize that wait, all this stuff to do between point A and point B isn't actually stuff. One can just go to point B, one little step, easy as pie.

Then it collapses in tidily like a tesseract and you finish the book. *g*

[identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
My tactic seems to be, Keep plowing through and figure out what isn't necessary when I go back to revise. It's a comforting sort of tactic, I have to admit.

I'm liking the tesseract image, though. The shortest distance is not necessarily a line...

[identity profile] cristalia.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That is indeed what the second draft is for. Or so they tell me!

[identity profile] klingonguy.livejournal.com 2009-07-19 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
in a word, "no."

[identity profile] aamcnamara.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
I was afraid of that.

[identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com 2009-07-20 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
I hope they go away when you're done with the first draft rather than when you're done with the final draft.
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