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thewhitelily) wrote2008-04-10 09:38 pm
thewhitelily) wrote2008-04-10 09:38 pm
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April 10: Working hard, or...
Of course the major problem with having pushed through a patch of easy bits is that on the other side of them lie hard bits.
The current problem is the second appearance of Jasie. She's a very hard character to get right, particularly because she's there in my head in three dimensional Technicolour, and... for goodness sake, how is it possible to do justice to a Slytherin from the point of view of a Hufflepuff, anyway? This is a challenge for Lily's show-don't-tell skills, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.
The more serious problem, the one that has caused both major skips, including the entirety of chapter 2, is that I haven't really got much written for Gary's workday. The answer for writer's block on a specific subject for me is usually that my brain's trying to tell me it's superfluous. I'd believe it - it's ten hours at work, after all - but... look, I know it's important.
It's not actually routine boring why-is-she-writing-this stuff. I know that the board have summoned him in for a meeting to check in on the progress of Gary's project, which started as a bit of midnight coding to make his job easier and turned into a major business concern. I know that it's running late on a tight schedule that he can't quite understand the absurd urgency for, and I know he's under increasing pressure from the higher-ups to get it operational, like, yesterday. And I know that - unlike when I was writing it the first time - now he actually has an in for all the plot development sessions he previously had to be horrifyingly cliche and out of character to listen in on.
And, while Gary doesn't know it yet, the completion of this project will turn out to be the absolute pivotal piece of the climax, in a Lily spectacular of knitting together disparate elements right at the end.
In short, I know there's stacks of interesting, plot-related, exposition-expediting stuff going on at work - possibly even more than what's going on outside.
But I haven't written it.
Why is that, again? *sigh*
Random stats of the day:
Word count: 48,134
Editing bar: 9,604
Highlighted: 1,828
Days to completion: 52
Number of random new characters who'll probably turn out to be crucial invented: 1
Simone's profanity ratio: 6%
The current problem is the second appearance of Jasie. She's a very hard character to get right, particularly because she's there in my head in three dimensional Technicolour, and... for goodness sake, how is it possible to do justice to a Slytherin from the point of view of a Hufflepuff, anyway? This is a challenge for Lily's show-don't-tell skills, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.
The more serious problem, the one that has caused both major skips, including the entirety of chapter 2, is that I haven't really got much written for Gary's workday. The answer for writer's block on a specific subject for me is usually that my brain's trying to tell me it's superfluous. I'd believe it - it's ten hours at work, after all - but... look, I know it's important.
It's not actually routine boring why-is-she-writing-this stuff. I know that the board have summoned him in for a meeting to check in on the progress of Gary's project, which started as a bit of midnight coding to make his job easier and turned into a major business concern. I know that it's running late on a tight schedule that he can't quite understand the absurd urgency for, and I know he's under increasing pressure from the higher-ups to get it operational, like, yesterday. And I know that - unlike when I was writing it the first time - now he actually has an in for all the plot development sessions he previously had to be horrifyingly cliche and out of character to listen in on.
And, while Gary doesn't know it yet, the completion of this project will turn out to be the absolute pivotal piece of the climax, in a Lily spectacular of knitting together disparate elements right at the end.
In short, I know there's stacks of interesting, plot-related, exposition-expediting stuff going on at work - possibly even more than what's going on outside.
But I haven't written it.
Why is that, again? *sigh*
Random stats of the day:
Word count: 48,134
Editing bar: 9,604
Highlighted: 1,828
Days to completion: 52
Number of random new characters who'll probably turn out to be crucial invented: 1
Simone's profanity ratio: 6%