closer and closer
Jul. 18th, 2006 08:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThe Mirador, Chapter 16: 6,480 words
We now reach the point in our programme where I have to rejigger the plot on account of having lost my head in the first draft and never gotten it back. (This is the most complicatedly plotty thing I have ever written. Note to self: Don't do that again.)
Fortunately for me, I have![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala, who's not only willing to say, "Yanno, this doesn't make any sense," but also to listen while I wail and thrash, and to help me get it right. So I know, more or less, what needs to happen. Now I just have to write it.
Watch that first step. It's a doozy.
On the other hand, this is the climax, and it's this and the denoument, and then the draft is done. And I have my little list of things to correct (with more doubtless to come asmirrorthaw progresses through the draft), but I'm very close to the point where, if my editor called me tomorrow and said, "I need the ms. Right. Now." I could give it to her and not have a cataclysmic hissy fit about it, either. We're not there yet, but I can see it from where I stand.
(In other news: wax. Definitely wax. 100 year old wax, even. Tra la.)
We now reach the point in our programme where I have to rejigger the plot on account of having lost my head in the first draft and never gotten it back. (This is the most complicatedly plotty thing I have ever written. Note to self: Don't do that again.)
Fortunately for me, I have
matociquala, who's not only willing to say, "Yanno, this doesn't make any sense," but also to listen while I wail and thrash, and to help me get it right. So I know, more or less, what needs to happen. Now I just have to write it.Watch that first step. It's a doozy.
On the other hand, this is the climax, and it's this and the denoument, and then the draft is done. And I have my little list of things to correct (with more doubtless to come as
mirrorthaw progresses through the draft), but I'm very close to the point where, if my editor called me tomorrow and said, "I need the ms. Right. Now." I could give it to her and not have a cataclysmic hissy fit about it, either. We're not there yet, but I can see it from where I stand.(In other news: wax. Definitely wax. 100 year old wax, even. Tra la.)
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Date: 2006-07-19 04:15 pm (UTC)White vinegar might help a bit, too.