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May 31 2008

WWIR: May 25 through May 31, 2008

Tag: Writing Week In Review — Kerry Allen @ 11:46 pm

Blog: Noticed every single WWIR post was titled with April dates and fixed. Nothing against the month of May, honestly. I can’t believe it will be June in just a few minutes.

Rhan: Decided no sex for the incubus with his twue wuv (mean, mean writer!). Felt bad for him and decided phone sex was permissible. Wasted valuable time vacuuming up the ashes of the beta reader who spontaneously combusted. (Interesting how saying something naughty seems so much naughtier than doing the naughty thing being said. And awesome to have a heroine who can talk the talk without blushing and stammering. “Potty-mouthed, sexually liberated Jezebel!”)

WL: Did absolutely final self-edit. Made sure the town thread and the list thread ran throughout. Did nitpicky language stuff like agonize over replacing as many was-es and were-s as possible with better verbs. Crept a little bit over 100,000 but not cutting back down without some compelling motivation (i.e., “We want to publish this immediately, but only if it’s 2,000 words shorter”).

IIWS: Was I out of my frickin’ mind? Nifty idea, but unnecessarily complicated. There’s a point where giving the reader a choice of direction when CLEARLY this is the way the story wants to go and dealing with the fallout of that wrong decision is just a pain in the ass. Does picking which hero you want and letting me take it from there count as interactive enough? Probably end up just carving it into 2 separate stories so I can finish the bloody thing. Goodbye Annabelle, hello Anna and Belle.

:teehee:

2 Responses to “WWIR: May 25 through May 31, 2008”

  1. Trish is SO pretty.
    June 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am

    FWIW, I liked picking which guy (or neither at the first decision), and I liked the “oh crap, I made a mistake, maybe I should switch” point. I don’t need to micromanage the story more than that.

    This opinion is completely uninfluenced by the fact that I want the damn thing finished already so I can read the endings and decide which guy I REALLY like better.
    :schemer:

  2. Kerry Allen is SO pretty.
    June 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am

    That’s doable. Keeping it down to two big decisions will also keep the navigation and continuity manageable (both were becoming kind of a nightmare on the flow chart).

    The grand scheme I envisioned, like most of my ideas, was overly ambitious for someone with my dismaying lack of ambition.
    :snap:

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