Still working
15,000 words. (I decided to skip 14,000 entirely. ^_^)
I've reached a long section that's all talk-talk—3000 words of it so far, and quite a lot to go!—and I'm a little concerned that it's going to seem boring. But it's quite important talk-talk, and is in fact one of the major important scenes of the chapter—a scene, in fact, that I've been working toward for several chapters now. Inevitably, it's not going anything like I'd planned!
But that's okay, it's going well, I think. And the words are coming pretty easily, which is a bonus. One-on-one conversations are things that I find pretty easy; the charcters are already in my head, so it's just a matter of letting them yak.
All in all, I'm not finding as much time to write as I'd like; but the writing is going well when I do.
Meanwhile distractions abound! We just ended daylight saving here this weekend, so the time will be its usual headache for a while. Worse, they've just opened a branch of Borders in Wellington! (Only the second branch in New Zealand.) That's all I need—another bookshop to suck up my precious money. (Okay, I admit it, I spend $90 there on its opening day. Not as much as it may sound, when you take exchange rates and the usual US-to-NZ markup into account. But not a little, either.)
Ah, life is hard…
posted by Angus @ 10:32 pm
4 comments
4 Comments:
if you want to break up the long bit of talk-talk, just have them do something, like get up to look out the window...or twirl a pen in their hand that annoys the other person. i'm sure i don't have to tell you that, but its always nice to break up the monotony of a long conversation with little things like that that won't distract too much.
congratulations on 15,000 words :D
oo yay you got a borders too? we got one 5 minutes from my house a couple years back, best thing ever!
Yes, breaking up the scene would help, but the mechanics of what's going on don't make that easy, alas. But it's actually six shorter conversations, one after the other, which hopefully will vary things eough to make it tolerable...we'll see.
I actually think dialogue is great! I'm sure we won't think it's boring!!
-Lynz
hello! I've been gone a while, but I /finally/ have a new computer, so i got to read your update... and i want more. :)
and yes, borders are evil
Louise
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