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la_marquise) wrote2009-12-04 07:16 pm
la_marquise) wrote2009-12-04 07:16 pm
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Bother.
Working my way through Grass King, I'm finding I like it more than I expected, though it's early days yet (I'm in the middle of ch, 4). But:
it needs another chapter at the end. I've had a sneaking niggle it might, but rereading the early section I realise more and more that there's a major strand I need to address and haven't. I am so bad at endings. (Living With Ghosts lacked a proper last chapter for the first 12 years of its existence. I suppose the realisation about Grass King shows some kind of progress in the writing craft. But I wish I'd remembered to write the blasted thing in the first draft.)
And like LWG, Grass King has trailing ends that I may end up writing about later. I did not ever set out to write series, blast it. But the characters have their own ideas.
Skirt of the day: long blue linen.
it needs another chapter at the end. I've had a sneaking niggle it might, but rereading the early section I realise more and more that there's a major strand I need to address and haven't. I am so bad at endings. (Living With Ghosts lacked a proper last chapter for the first 12 years of its existence. I suppose the realisation about Grass King shows some kind of progress in the writing craft. But I wish I'd remembered to write the blasted thing in the first draft.)
And like LWG, Grass King has trailing ends that I may end up writing about later. I did not ever set out to write series, blast it. But the characters have their own ideas.
Skirt of the day: long blue linen.
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On the positive side, however, when the characters take over the material is generally very good.
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Stage One: Coolest idea ever!
Stage Two: So excited, if only I could gt this opening to work.
Stage Three: Writing
Stage Four: Despair.
Stage Five: Well, at least it is finished.
Stage Six: Oh. Wait. Upon reread for revisions, am liking it more than I expected.
and so on
(we can come up with better stages, but you get the picture).
Glad to hear it!
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In fact, a major writerly question must be: When do you stop? How do you know you've finished?
I've got a coronation interruptus stuck on the end of Malarat. Which is mostly fine, up till the end, which is embarrassingly feeble.
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(exit pursued by an end...)
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WRITE THAT LAST CHAPTER!!!!!