Some writing angstification
Jul. 21st, 2007 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesI'm nearing the tale tail end of the Tower!Guy novel. As with all projects, I am both elated to be nearing the end and looking back going, "Oh god, I just wasted weeks and weeks of my life on utter crap!"
I had to eliminate a couple of thousand words because I realized I was rehashing old conflicts that had already been hashed out and besides, anything that shaves *down* the wordcount is a Good Thing. And another scene got completely cut out because I realized that it was detail that nobody needed.
I call it the Inigo Montoya Theory of Writing: "Let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
This novel is going to get down to a nice svelte weight if I have to go page by page and start deleting articles and unnecessary uses of the word "that".
I'm not backing down this time. This story, in one form or another, will land on an agent's desk. So help me Great and Power Monkey!god. Maybe it gets attention, maybe it gets a form letter. That's their decision. I will write the best damn book I can and go from there.
I had to eliminate a couple of thousand words because I realized I was rehashing old conflicts that had already been hashed out and besides, anything that shaves *down* the wordcount is a Good Thing. And another scene got completely cut out because I realized that it was detail that nobody needed.
I call it the Inigo Montoya Theory of Writing: "Let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up."
This novel is going to get down to a nice svelte weight if I have to go page by page and start deleting articles and unnecessary uses of the word "that".
I'm not backing down this time. This story, in one form or another, will land on an agent's desk. So help me Great and Power Monkey!god. Maybe it gets attention, maybe it gets a form letter. That's their decision. I will write the best damn book I can and go from there.
