I seem to be having more than a little trouble with relinquishing the idea that the cleverer and more shiny an idea is, the longer the delay should be before it gets explained.
Man did that ever resonate with me, and I'm still working on getting a single project finished. But here in massive rewrite draft #2, I took all those clever ideas I thought would be so neat to reveal slowly througout the story and put them in the first three chapters. My editors, who knew the first version rather well, were whiplashed. But I kept repeating shoot your load, shoot your load, shoot your load like a mantra. Which, admitedly, might make it a much pornier story than the first time around. (I'm kidding about that last part.)
Though I've noticed that my problem revolves around putting the shiny idea way in the past and letting it be revealed slowly rather than having it happen in the NOW and letting the characters and the reader actually experience it. So I keep having to reverse engineer the story.
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Date: 2006-05-09 12:48 am (UTC)Man did that ever resonate with me, and I'm still working on getting a single project finished. But here in massive rewrite draft #2, I took all those clever ideas I thought would be so neat to reveal slowly througout the story and put them in the first three chapters. My editors, who knew the first version rather well, were whiplashed. But I kept repeating shoot your load, shoot your load, shoot your load like a mantra. Which, admitedly, might make it a much pornier story than the first time around. (I'm kidding about that last part.)
Though I've noticed that my problem revolves around putting the shiny idea way in the past and letting it be revealed slowly rather than having it happen in the NOW and letting the characters and the reader actually experience it. So I keep having to reverse engineer the story.
But still. Much sympathy from me on this point.