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Writing is hard. Let's drink tea.
Aug. 15th, 2010 06:20 pmOh look, we're back.
That'd be a triple-decker grilled cheese on challah with caramelized apples, there.
Yah, I've kind of been avoiding the revision. Why? Writing is hard, that's why. This chapter contains two of the major issues in the whole edit letter, and I had to think about them and make some decisions: the kind that balance the impact of the scene right now against plot-logic throughout against the theoretical faux-physics of how the speculative element works and how that ties into the theme. This is why revising is hard on a project that's this...well, set (in the way that Jello sets). Every choice you make has to be weighed in terms of its merits and demerits, what it's going to add or subtract. Everything pulls at another string of the whole fabric.
It makes my head hurt.
So yeah, I worked on it a bunch and complained some to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bunnyhero, who is also here at the tea shop doing some work (and keeping me honest by his industry), and he actually came up with a decent workaround, so that will hopefully hold. I'll check back on it when I do the readthrough pass at the end (a readthrough pass at the end is looking more and more inevitable) and see if it leaks.
Other notes from chapter two: it is incredible how ass a certain important, pivotal scene was. Fixed that for you there, Leah.
Also, I love it when I just kind of made up a vague set of symptoms, with a vague diagnosis in mind, for a character, and then two or more years later I go back to actually do the research because my edit letter is asking me a specific question about it and find I got the pathology of, say, osteosarcoma, exactly right. Okay, so we started in the wrist, not the upper arm. Doesn't matter. My backbrain rules.
(And yes, even though they're not mentioned by name, I know the official diagnosis, pathology, and treatment regimen for every medical issue in Safe. This is what we call iceberg worldbuilding.)
The draft is slowly inflating. I will need to ask the relevant people how much of a lid they want kept on the wordcount.
I have been doing stuff while avoiding my revision: notably, seeing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on opening night and a Jeunet movie at the Underground, catching up with friends I hadn't seen in like a month (several sets), getting a haircut that was actually supposed to be a trim and turned out shorter than anything I've had since 1997, drinks with workfriends, high tea with yet more people I haven't seen in ages, officially forfeiting my Twilight virginity (actually not a bad movie), and then skipping two concerts because I was sniffly and dead tired. It is really, really humid in Toronto right now. Sleeping is hard. Not sleeping makes a week seem really long. I am, in point of fact, sleepy.
Okay, going to get another pot of tea. I've run out, and chapter three is waiting.
ETA: Got halfway through chapter three! And now I am virtuous, and need a nap.
That'd be a triple-decker grilled cheese on challah with caramelized apples, there.
Yah, I've kind of been avoiding the revision. Why? Writing is hard, that's why. This chapter contains two of the major issues in the whole edit letter, and I had to think about them and make some decisions: the kind that balance the impact of the scene right now against plot-logic throughout against the theoretical faux-physics of how the speculative element works and how that ties into the theme. This is why revising is hard on a project that's this...well, set (in the way that Jello sets). Every choice you make has to be weighed in terms of its merits and demerits, what it's going to add or subtract. Everything pulls at another string of the whole fabric.
It makes my head hurt.
So yeah, I worked on it a bunch and complained some to
bunnyhero, who is also here at the tea shop doing some work (and keeping me honest by his industry), and he actually came up with a decent workaround, so that will hopefully hold. I'll check back on it when I do the readthrough pass at the end (a readthrough pass at the end is looking more and more inevitable) and see if it leaks.Other notes from chapter two: it is incredible how ass a certain important, pivotal scene was. Fixed that for you there, Leah.
Also, I love it when I just kind of made up a vague set of symptoms, with a vague diagnosis in mind, for a character, and then two or more years later I go back to actually do the research because my edit letter is asking me a specific question about it and find I got the pathology of, say, osteosarcoma, exactly right. Okay, so we started in the wrist, not the upper arm. Doesn't matter. My backbrain rules.
(And yes, even though they're not mentioned by name, I know the official diagnosis, pathology, and treatment regimen for every medical issue in Safe. This is what we call iceberg worldbuilding.)
The draft is slowly inflating. I will need to ask the relevant people how much of a lid they want kept on the wordcount.
I have been doing stuff while avoiding my revision: notably, seeing Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on opening night and a Jeunet movie at the Underground, catching up with friends I hadn't seen in like a month (several sets), getting a haircut that was actually supposed to be a trim and turned out shorter than anything I've had since 1997, drinks with workfriends, high tea with yet more people I haven't seen in ages, officially forfeiting my Twilight virginity (actually not a bad movie), and then skipping two concerts because I was sniffly and dead tired. It is really, really humid in Toronto right now. Sleeping is hard. Not sleeping makes a week seem really long. I am, in point of fact, sleepy.
Okay, going to get another pot of tea. I've run out, and chapter three is waiting.
ETA: Got halfway through chapter three! And now I am virtuous, and need a nap.
