Revisions, Day 3

[swan_tower]

I can tell I was grappling hard with issues of plot and characterization and so on while writing this book because man, I have some awkward prose in here.

Mind you, my not-paying-attention prose of today is still generally better than my paying-attention prose of, say, five years ago, but that's cold comfort. My miniscript has "awk" scribbled all over the margins. Relatively easy to fix; also boring as hell. It's much easier to motivate myself to change the setting of a scene or re-order a set of conversational plot points than it is to vacuum the suck out of a paragraph.

And yeah, this is me procrastinating. My set goal is seven miniscript pages knocked off each day; I've done three so far. Don' wanna go back to work. Wanna play with a new story. <whine>

Sometimes I really wish my job was something that would allow me to watch TV while I work.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I really wish my job was something that would allow me to watch TV while I work.

I have artist-friends who can listen to BBC Radio 4 all day. While they work. This makes me sick jealous. Sick.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

I actually find I edit better with a bit of noise in the background, though it has to be relatively "white" noise - like people in the lobby, or a baseball game...

I like "awk," it feels like it's expressive on more than one level. :)

Good luck!

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Music is fine -- almost necessary -- but anything where I have to pay attention to the words (i.e. TV) is not.