The writing thing
Sep. 7th, 2004 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyPlugging along on GHOST POINT, chapter 6 (about 20,000 words in) and still with the sense that I really don't have a clue what I'm doing. Not the story, I know where that ends up and what happens next and the subplots and the doomed ensigns and all that, but writing in general.
Like this chapter. I don't know how much time to spend on Beowulf driving his GMC pickup through an unforecast snow squall and how much on slogging through winter Maine on snowshoes and how much on his finding an intruder in the boathouse and all that balance stuff. Character/setting/conflict balance, I guess you'd call it. I think I have maybe 500 words to cut out of that chapter, and the burning question is, _which_ words?
Maybe that's why God created editors.
Next chapter, we get back to Grendel's mom.
Like this chapter. I don't know how much time to spend on Beowulf driving his GMC pickup through an unforecast snow squall and how much on slogging through winter Maine on snowshoes and how much on his finding an intruder in the boathouse and all that balance stuff. Character/setting/conflict balance, I guess you'd call it. I think I have maybe 500 words to cut out of that chapter, and the burning question is, _which_ words?
Maybe that's why God created editors.
Next chapter, we get back to Grendel's mom.
