I come from the cave to give you this gem of a post, the recipe of which I have stolen from my alpha MK *shhhh, don't tell her*.
Please enjoy as I go to wrestle further with the bear...I mean, The White Rose....
Awkward:
- The plotlines snarl tremendously.
- Character development is nil
- Plot threads are picked up and dropped without any rhyme or reason whatsoever
- Did I mention that character development is NIL?
- You write 61k words of a story that goes absolutely NO WHERE.
- You leave yourself exceptionally confused and constantly consulting the roadmap of the plot (the snarled one, in case you've forgotten).
- You have meaningful world-building that cannot be used except if you keep that 2k thread that means absolutely nothing to the story.
- Your word count keeps racking up and racking up to the point where you wonder what kind of a monster have you unleashed.
- Editing at the pace of a turtle....because your muse is so done with the project that she's ready to explode.
Awesome:
- The scenes are not nearly as choppy as they were before.
- There is a lot more action rather than just a load of talking
- I still catch myself laughing at Karsten's antics
- Janina is getting more "screen time", which is a dreadful relief considering the fact that she is the protagonist after all.
- That you readers have such an interest. If it wasn't for that, this draft would have been thrown out weeks ago.
Seriously - that last line is heartfelt. As Lia and MK know, I've been pulling my hair out with this draft and have long since wanted to dump it in the nearest pond never to be seen again.
As of right now, the story is at the halfway mark. I think. However, there are more scenes written in this second half so we shall see if it will go faster now that there isn't as much to draft...
Scribbingly yours,
Catherine
