I'm thrilled that you're going to write this one as itself--which in retrospect may have been some of the nagging struggle you've had with it all along, that it wanted to be it's own story, it had a different life.
Even as nascent and sketchy as it was, I liked it enough to make a soundtrack, and I'm very glad to see what it evolves into.
In related news, I've written about 1k words and re-wrote another 5k and shuffled them into rough chapter divisions. Somewhere in the past few months of whinging, I stumbled upon the vague intimations of a plot--suddenly I'm able to look at the original 26k words of flailing and know not only what does and doesn't belong, but where it goes and the changes dictated by the rest of the whole.
It's been so long since I've written something that just innately was itself (as this is starting to be) I'd forgotten what that ability to taste and combine felt like.
Actually, it's been even longer since I've written anything completely original that's done that. Though I'm suspicious that this 26k Flailing File has more than 1 book buried in it, now that I can pick out the pattern of what's SubMyth and what isn't.
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Date: 2008-03-30 08:59 pm (UTC)Even as nascent and sketchy as it was, I liked it enough to make a soundtrack, and I'm very glad to see what it evolves into.
In related news, I've written about 1k words and re-wrote another 5k and shuffled them into rough chapter divisions. Somewhere in the past few months of whinging, I stumbled upon the vague intimations of a plot--suddenly I'm able to look at the original 26k words of flailing and know not only what does and doesn't belong, but where it goes and the changes dictated by the rest of the whole.
It's been so long since I've written something that just innately was itself (as this is starting to be) I'd forgotten what that ability to taste and combine felt like.
Actually, it's been even longer since I've written anything completely original that's done that. Though I'm suspicious that this 26k Flailing File has more than 1 book buried in it, now that I can pick out the pattern of what's SubMyth and what isn't.