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Progress Report #1 for TOTW 17
Friday, May 29th, 2020 11:54 pmThe latest draft of TOTW chapter 17 has over 6,000 words, and it's still not done. Lots of holes and rough patches. Probably I'll have to rewrite or throw out a bunch of stuff, because it's not working.
It doesn't help that the chapter is mostly written as a series of flashbacks, but mostly the scenes themselves don't feel right. It's like I'm forcing characters to go through certain motions because the plot demands it, not because it feels genuine. I've packed in some character backstory that feels important, but the way it is now feels like a distraction, something that's not pulling its own weight.
This is hardly the first time I've run into this kind of problem, and I'm not sure why it still takes me forever to solve it. So far, speed does not seem to come with experience.
It doesn't help that the chapter is mostly written as a series of flashbacks, but mostly the scenes themselves don't feel right. It's like I'm forcing characters to go through certain motions because the plot demands it, not because it feels genuine. I've packed in some character backstory that feels important, but the way it is now feels like a distraction, something that's not pulling its own weight.
This is hardly the first time I've run into this kind of problem, and I'm not sure why it still takes me forever to solve it. So far, speed does not seem to come with experience.
