When you're a procrastinator like me, who also gets tossed around by life's crap, you can never actually expect to get where you want. So to be able to announce today that all the heavy rewriting for your novel is done is pretty damn fantastic! Done!
Perfect? Well... It's come a long way. Still has room to be tweaked. But everything is there to be tweaked!
I'm having a little bit of trouble adulting right now, so this silly schedule they gave me all week (11:30am-7:30pm) only leaves room for me to wake up late, go to work, and cram in errands and self-care. However, I will try to dig my hands into the pot of events I've copy-pasta'd from draft one into two "CH15" and "CH16" documents. I've got the clay, now I mold it!
The superfluous stuff will be pruned out, what worked in those events will be kept and expanded upon with my new notes, and a few settings will be changed. Unlike in the first draft, the theater is off limits for a little while. As he put it to Giry, some things got stirred up there that can't be immediately settled. So yeah, he has to actually avoid it, try to get Lily to meet him other places. It's gonna be a little awkward, I think! Especially awkward because the next time Lily sees him, he has promised to explain how he knows her, and this scene won't be guarded and passive the way he was in the first draft. It seemed appropriate to nod to Leroux's scene in which Erik admits he's not the Angel of Music. Soooo!... yeah
It's gonna be quite something, to get into that... Looking forward to it, probably going to act it out a little, so I'm not missing any of the more subtle emotional shifts as certain things are said. Sometimes one character hears something, has a small physical reaction to it, and that has a domino effect. The first character picks up on it, maybe changes course, maybe backs out of what they were saying, has to be re-engaged, learns something they weren't expecting. The list goes on and on.
Well, there goes my morning. Already. ugh Such a stupid schedule, right in the smack-motherfucking-dab middle of the day. ugh Also it's hot and I have my period.
*blows raspberry* This day can go fuck itself, already.
Perfect? Well... It's come a long way. Still has room to be tweaked. But everything is there to be tweaked!
I'm having a little bit of trouble adulting right now, so this silly schedule they gave me all week (11:30am-7:30pm) only leaves room for me to wake up late, go to work, and cram in errands and self-care. However, I will try to dig my hands into the pot of events I've copy-pasta'd from draft one into two "CH15" and "CH16" documents. I've got the clay, now I mold it!
The superfluous stuff will be pruned out, what worked in those events will be kept and expanded upon with my new notes, and a few settings will be changed. Unlike in the first draft, the theater is off limits for a little while. As he put it to Giry, some things got stirred up there that can't be immediately settled. So yeah, he has to actually avoid it, try to get Lily to meet him other places. It's gonna be a little awkward, I think! Especially awkward because the next time Lily sees him, he has promised to explain how he knows her, and this scene won't be guarded and passive the way he was in the first draft. It seemed appropriate to nod to Leroux's scene in which Erik admits he's not the Angel of Music. Soooo!... yeah
It's gonna be quite something, to get into that... Looking forward to it, probably going to act it out a little, so I'm not missing any of the more subtle emotional shifts as certain things are said. Sometimes one character hears something, has a small physical reaction to it, and that has a domino effect. The first character picks up on it, maybe changes course, maybe backs out of what they were saying, has to be re-engaged, learns something they weren't expecting. The list goes on and on.
Well, there goes my morning. Already. ugh Such a stupid schedule, right in the smack-motherfucking-dab middle of the day. ugh Also it's hot and I have my period.
*blows raspberry* This day can go fuck itself, already.
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