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secret_history) wrote2006-11-07 12:33 pm
secret_history) wrote2006-11-07 12:33 pm
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Argh! Transitions are evil...
I'm struggling a bit with the transition from Part I to Part II of Afternoon Snack of the Living Dead. Transitions are not my friends, let me tell you.
I can't really jump very far forward in my story, but I need to jump a little bit in the beginning of Part II to show that there has been some kind of progress. I'm stuck in the neighbourhood of 36,000 words, and I'm still at the end of Part I. I don't want Part I to be too long, though, because that just means I have to make the other parts equally as long in order to balance it out. Mind you, I can always edit out some bits of Part I in December...
I think I might do that and not worry about the length of Parts II and III as a result. Otherwise I'll just sit here and gnash my teeth. Gnash, gnash.
At least I'm not taping bacon to the cat. However, my procrastination-fu is strong. I have petted the cats and made coffee, and then one and a half cups into the coffee I decided that the batch I made tasted really gross, and tossed the rest out (I only made three cups, but it seemed a waste). I listened to Allegri's "Miserere" for a while, and have since switched to Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suite, although the slow bits aren't at all helping to move the zombies along. I think I may have to switch back to something more energetic and/or creepy.
SarahJanet is currently about 1,500 words ahead of me, and doubtless will be even further ahead by the end of the day. 1,500 words isn't a huge deal, but I do have to take my mind away from ASotLD for a while today to work on BTP, for at least an hour to an hour and a half, if I want to get today's instalment written and posted. *sigh* So very hard to switch mind spaces like that in the middle of a project, but the show must go on!
Okay. Enough procrastinating with LJ. I am going back into the breach, dear friends, and by the time you next hear from me, I shall have started Part II of this puppy. Unless, of course, the cats sit on my head and prevent me from working. I can see a malicious gleam in their eyes already...
I can't really jump very far forward in my story, but I need to jump a little bit in the beginning of Part II to show that there has been some kind of progress. I'm stuck in the neighbourhood of 36,000 words, and I'm still at the end of Part I. I don't want Part I to be too long, though, because that just means I have to make the other parts equally as long in order to balance it out. Mind you, I can always edit out some bits of Part I in December...
I think I might do that and not worry about the length of Parts II and III as a result. Otherwise I'll just sit here and gnash my teeth. Gnash, gnash.
At least I'm not taping bacon to the cat. However, my procrastination-fu is strong. I have petted the cats and made coffee, and then one and a half cups into the coffee I decided that the batch I made tasted really gross, and tossed the rest out (I only made three cups, but it seemed a waste). I listened to Allegri's "Miserere" for a while, and have since switched to Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suite, although the slow bits aren't at all helping to move the zombies along. I think I may have to switch back to something more energetic and/or creepy.
SarahJanet is currently about 1,500 words ahead of me, and doubtless will be even further ahead by the end of the day. 1,500 words isn't a huge deal, but I do have to take my mind away from ASotLD for a while today to work on BTP, for at least an hour to an hour and a half, if I want to get today's instalment written and posted. *sigh* So very hard to switch mind spaces like that in the middle of a project, but the show must go on!
Okay. Enough procrastinating with LJ. I am going back into the breach, dear friends, and by the time you next hear from me, I shall have started Part II of this puppy. Unless, of course, the cats sit on my head and prevent me from working. I can see a malicious gleam in their eyes already...