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Friday, October 3rd
Oct. 3rd, 2014 03:15 pmThe Daily Report
I had some crosspost problems to sort out this morning, which is why I didn't make a status post until mid afternoon.
It's been an interesting day, though I'm mainly going to talk about yesterday. Yesterday's chapter ended up being more of a transitional thing than I'd intended, but after having failed a couple of times to write the chapter I wanted to, I decided what I really needed was to lay down a solid foundation that I can use to build up from... or push off of. I have a feeling it's going to be one of those chapters that people comment on to say "What is this chapter doing here? Any good editor would have cut it out.", but the main thing it's doing is letting me adjust my position for the next few ones.
And that's a difference between serial writing for immediate publication (as in what I'm doing, or comic strips, or whatever), and writing a novel. Novelists fine-tune their pacing after the fact, but pacing is what serialists do to keep moving. I'm not interested in debating the merits of one versus the other because as far as I'm concerned they're just different media and different experiences. It's just interesting to observe that sometimes I go out of my way to avoid a chapter like that, and sometimes it's exactly what I need to do.
Ultimately, I think yesterday's chapter will stand out in my mind if no one else's as the one where I got my feet back underneath me.
The State of the Me
Doing okay. Had a dream about Dorian last night. I don't recall the details, just know that in my dream I had a living cat with me. I didn't wake up sad or disappointed... actually kind of comforted at the sign that he's still part of my life.
Plans For The Day
My remaining plan is to take advantage of the solid platform I laid down yesterday and spring ahead. I have not in the past two weeks successfully written a chapter two days in a row; I'm looking forward to doing this, which will put me in the position of starting next week right.
I had some crosspost problems to sort out this morning, which is why I didn't make a status post until mid afternoon.
It's been an interesting day, though I'm mainly going to talk about yesterday. Yesterday's chapter ended up being more of a transitional thing than I'd intended, but after having failed a couple of times to write the chapter I wanted to, I decided what I really needed was to lay down a solid foundation that I can use to build up from... or push off of. I have a feeling it's going to be one of those chapters that people comment on to say "What is this chapter doing here? Any good editor would have cut it out.", but the main thing it's doing is letting me adjust my position for the next few ones.
And that's a difference between serial writing for immediate publication (as in what I'm doing, or comic strips, or whatever), and writing a novel. Novelists fine-tune their pacing after the fact, but pacing is what serialists do to keep moving. I'm not interested in debating the merits of one versus the other because as far as I'm concerned they're just different media and different experiences. It's just interesting to observe that sometimes I go out of my way to avoid a chapter like that, and sometimes it's exactly what I need to do.
Ultimately, I think yesterday's chapter will stand out in my mind if no one else's as the one where I got my feet back underneath me.
The State of the Me
Doing okay. Had a dream about Dorian last night. I don't recall the details, just know that in my dream I had a living cat with me. I didn't wake up sad or disappointed... actually kind of comforted at the sign that he's still part of my life.
Plans For The Day
My remaining plan is to take advantage of the solid platform I laid down yesterday and spring ahead. I have not in the past two weeks successfully written a chapter two days in a row; I'm looking forward to doing this, which will put me in the position of starting next week right.