Re: Clue bats

Catja Pafort <green_knight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Right now I'm writing a draft that I know I shall have to pick apart
entirely and rewrite. Normally, I am adding layers, but the first round
will form the backbone of the story. This time, it's scaffolding; but I
need to write it, of I'll never be able to get to the story proper.

Of the nineteen people my protag is travelling with, for instance, I've
only got a very vague idea of five of them. As I write this, I shall
know who else was sitting in the room, and what their relationships are,
and on the second draft I will be able to change 'someone remarked' for
something that will introduce that chacter. I *could* stop every time
and go back and fix earlier chapters, but I'm too lazy to do that.

Sometimes I can work ahead "pretending" I've already made the fixes;
sometimes I can't. I spent a chunk of this last weekend threading more
reports-of-war into my angst, and can now continue where I'd previously
been stuck. But I still have a pile of notes saying things like "add
partial eclipse here", "more plotting bits", "one would think Holger
would have a servant or two", "lady-in-waiting getting married", and so
forth.

For me, it's not that I'm too lazy to go back and fix earlier chapters,
but that I could get caught doing that *endlessly* because it's fun, so
I try not to unless I'm really stuck.

If I did the subtlety first it'd (excuse the
metaphor domain shift) grow like convolvulus: flowering here and there,
no doubt, but on the whole just a sprawling entangled mess of a weed
that chokes off the life of all beneath it and is impossible to
profitably prune, uproot, or otherwise destroy(1).

Why, anyone would think you had the stuff in your garden.

Here and there. Also yonder, under, over, in clover, around, among and
throughout.

Zeborah
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