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06-30-2008, 04:31 AM
So I've started revising 7faS, and I have realized something. I think if I do the fussy line editing, and clean up the false trails, all I have to do is add a few scenes and I have a serviceable novella.
The trick, of course, is figuring out what Abby Irene's evil master plan is so I can write the scenes where it's important, because those are the ones that are missing, now.
Still. I shall apply my new motto as a writer, which is this: Think about what you are doing, rather than how you are doing it.
Because after many years of thinking about how I am doing things, that process is not longer serving me, and I need a new one now. Which, apparently, means learning to live with the unconscious competence thing.
Well, you never learn to write novels. You only learn to write this novel.
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The trick, of course, is figuring out what Abby Irene's evil master plan is so I can write the scenes where it's important, because those are the ones that are missing, now.
Still. I shall apply my new motto as a writer, which is this: Think about what you are doing, rather than how you are doing it.
Because after many years of thinking about how I am doing things, that process is not longer serving me, and I need a new one now. Which, apparently, means learning to live with the unconscious competence thing.
Well, you never learn to write novels. You only learn to write this novel.
(Original Post) (http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1401613.html)