For the past week or so I felt like I was hacking away with a machete at my book, as I started making my judicious cuts. It’s going well for the most part. A few changes I made, such as culling characters and tweaking some others helped me get pretty close to the goals I sent. These change allowed me to refocus scenes - I even took a scene from the latter end of the book to replace a similar scene with the same beats earlier on. And just last night I started reworking one of my “darlings”, a scene that until now I’ve been so convinced I needed to keep in the book, until I realized it wasn’t as crucial as I thought and the changes I could make with it will be better all around.
Dispatch #1 from the Revision Trenches
Dispatch #1 from the Revision Trenches
Dispatch #1 from the Revision Trenches
For the past week or so I felt like I was hacking away with a machete at my book, as I started making my judicious cuts. It’s going well for the most part. A few changes I made, such as culling characters and tweaking some others helped me get pretty close to the goals I sent. These change allowed me to refocus scenes - I even took a scene from the latter end of the book to replace a similar scene with the same beats earlier on. And just last night I started reworking one of my “darlings”, a scene that until now I’ve been so convinced I needed to keep in the book, until I realized it wasn’t as crucial as I thought and the changes I could make with it will be better all around.