Three into Two (contd...)
Jul. 19th, 2005 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranOk, I *think* I can make this work...
I've been chopping and changing and rearranging and I've got a fairly radically structure now that *just might* do the job. It does jump around quite a lot, but I think that might be just what the novel needs at this point - a fast-paced summary to get the reader onto the next major turning point without getting too drawn into the interesting stuff that the protag hasn't noticed yet. I'm very deliberately giving the reader a patchy view of events, focussing only on those that match the protag's mood. The other stuff that happens - the people he meets who will turn into friends, the first glimpses of the Poet's quest, the side-characters in the Poet's house - all those I can cover later, once the protag's outlook has started to change.
Now that I'm changing the structure, I've also noticed a sudden rush of formerly deceased darlings from other parts of the book all clamouring to get in. I think I might be able to fit in at least one that was excised from chapter 1, putting it into a completely unexpected place.
I'm still not entirely sure that I can get away with the slightly contrived revelation at the end of chapter A, but I have a slightly more plausible version ready to swap in if my test readers complain.
I've been chopping and changing and rearranging and I've got a fairly radically structure now that *just might* do the job. It does jump around quite a lot, but I think that might be just what the novel needs at this point - a fast-paced summary to get the reader onto the next major turning point without getting too drawn into the interesting stuff that the protag hasn't noticed yet. I'm very deliberately giving the reader a patchy view of events, focussing only on those that match the protag's mood. The other stuff that happens - the people he meets who will turn into friends, the first glimpses of the Poet's quest, the side-characters in the Poet's house - all those I can cover later, once the protag's outlook has started to change.
Now that I'm changing the structure, I've also noticed a sudden rush of formerly deceased darlings from other parts of the book all clamouring to get in. I think I might be able to fit in at least one that was excised from chapter 1, putting it into a completely unexpected place.
I'm still not entirely sure that I can get away with the slightly contrived revelation at the end of chapter A, but I have a slightly more plausible version ready to swap in if my test readers complain.
