I don't know how interesting my blogs are, but I like the new routine. Keeps me writing. Yesterday was a bit more cut 'n paste from the old draft to the new than actual rewriting. I guess that too is part of the process. It's not that I'm trying to jam favorite scenes into the new, but they do the job story wise and they mesh into the new, dare I call it the final, draft.
That will be tomorrow's entry: when to call a project finished. I mean seriously, you could rewrite a thing to death, become trapped in an endless cycle of revisions. Oh sure, the books tell you when your rewriting has been reduced to cutting and pasting scenes, truncating description and dialogue, and other minor touches that don't drastically affect the story; that's when you're done. Until a story editor or contest reads your 'done' script and says, "It's good; but it could use this." Or, "It would be better if..." Or, "We like it, but could you change the main character to a volkswagon named Herbie?" Then I guess you could go once more into the breech.
But for now I'm pressing onward to FADE TO BLACK on this draft, and will promptly move on to the next story. |