Hard acts to follow...
Nov. 13th, 2006 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranI heard a joke on the radio once about the 1812 Overture, and how it had never been used as an actual overture. What do you follow it with?
Every now and then, I'll come across a good scene that does everything it's supposed to - enthrall the reader, capture the moment, slip a key point, whatever - and yet it will grind the story to a halt within a chapter. The problem never appears to be the scene in question. It's just that - well, the next scene is kind of flat or awkward. Or the mood will be all wrong. Or the tension will have vanished when it should have increased.
I think there's something I still don't understand here, but at least I'm getting better at spotting it. My guess is that it happens when I lose track of the bigger picture and the mood I'm trying to convey, which it quite easy to do when writing only in short bursts.
It's going to be interesting to still if the new, more detailed, outlining I'm doing now will help prevent it.
Every now and then, I'll come across a good scene that does everything it's supposed to - enthrall the reader, capture the moment, slip a key point, whatever - and yet it will grind the story to a halt within a chapter. The problem never appears to be the scene in question. It's just that - well, the next scene is kind of flat or awkward. Or the mood will be all wrong. Or the tension will have vanished when it should have increased.
I think there's something I still don't understand here, but at least I'm getting better at spotting it. My guess is that it happens when I lose track of the bigger picture and the mood I'm trying to convey, which it quite easy to do when writing only in short bursts.
It's going to be interesting to still if the new, more detailed, outlining I'm doing now will help prevent it.
