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Okay, so I am half a chapter away from having a rough draft of this thing, or at least an "it's called a draft because it's full of holes" draft. But this half-chapter is hard, a lot harder than the other half of the same chapter, and I think it's because for this one I have a section of text that is wrong.
It was a conversation that went here when I thought the climax went one way, and then I realized that didn't work at all, so I cut that out and rewrote the climax from scratch, and in the process included some but not all of this conversation that was formerly in the denouement. And now I have the rest of that conversation, and because it's there but it doesn't fit there, I can't put in the rest of the scene around it like I usually do. (The other problem is I have to cross reference the whole time I'm writing this with the earlier part of the climax.)
So I cut that bit out, and then immediately went to Chicago for 36 hours and am now kind of drained, so I don't know if it worked. I was hoping for writing to happen in the car, but it didn't.
I have spent May trying to be pretty singularly focused on this project, and on the one hand see above re almost done, but on the other hand it's ... tiring. My brain is now popping up occasionally with unrelated bits of prose, which is nice in the sense that things are still working in there. But that prose voice is not quite the one I need to have ready for this scene, and ... I don't know. zzz.
It was a conversation that went here when I thought the climax went one way, and then I realized that didn't work at all, so I cut that out and rewrote the climax from scratch, and in the process included some but not all of this conversation that was formerly in the denouement. And now I have the rest of that conversation, and because it's there but it doesn't fit there, I can't put in the rest of the scene around it like I usually do. (The other problem is I have to cross reference the whole time I'm writing this with the earlier part of the climax.)
So I cut that bit out, and then immediately went to Chicago for 36 hours and am now kind of drained, so I don't know if it worked. I was hoping for writing to happen in the car, but it didn't.
I have spent May trying to be pretty singularly focused on this project, and on the one hand see above re almost done, but on the other hand it's ... tiring. My brain is now popping up occasionally with unrelated bits of prose, which is nice in the sense that things are still working in there. But that prose voice is not quite the one I need to have ready for this scene, and ... I don't know. zzz.
