Yes, I'm still writing
23,000 words now. I haven't had so much time to write, the last couple of weeks. Still, things are moving along. Here's another little sample—it's a snippet that I rather like, but which may get cut in the final version (because it veers rather sharply off-course from the subject of the scene).
Miyo grinned. "You obviously never met Haruka and Michiru."
"Who?"
"They aren't in the 'Queen Serenity and her Senshi' anime," explained Dhiti, and Miyo gave a short bark of laughter.
"How can you not know who they were?" asked Suzue, looking faintly disgusted. "Don't you study history at all? And that…that anime…is the most disgraceful, ludicrous piece of trash—"
"Oh, no, it's great!" protested Beth.
"Yeah, it's not bad, in a goofy kind of way," added Dhiti.
"It's pretty funny, actually," put in Miyo.
"I like it," said xxx [Sailor Moon's real name].
Suzue stared at them all, horrified. "Oh, Blessed Lady, please don't tell me I'm going to have to start watching it," she muttered.
Dhiti patted her on the shoulder. "There, there," she said. "It's all right. You can keep on watching nice, safe documentaries about earthworms. We don't mind."
Without thinking, Suzue reached up and took Dhiti's hand in both of hers. "Thank you," she said sincerely.
Ahem. Okay, it's not the most serious writing in the world. Sue me. ^_^
I've received some more fan art—a rather neat piece of Beth and Bendis— which I must get around to posting. (My apologies to the artist.) And that's all for now…
posted by Angus @ 10:58 pm
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5 Comments:
You're teasing us, and all it does is make me want more!
Hmm... that could be taken wrong, couldn't it? >.>
Keep it up, Angus, I can't wait to read the chapter in its entirety.
Louise
Example of pure, unadulterated evil:
"I like it," [Sailor Moon's real name].
Poor Suzue. She's certainly having a rough time. :-)
Are you keeping a list of "deleted scenes", things like this that were good but perhaps didn't fit the larger context? At least I would enjoy reading them.
Thomas: Yes, I've got quite an extensive file of deleted scenes. By an odd coincidence, the "cuts" file is currently about the same size as what I've done on chapter 13—i.e. about 23000 words.
Some of them are scenes that I went back and re-wrote a different way, but still liked the original version enough to save. Some are scenes that just took a different direction from what I needed—for example, I have a version of Rei's meditation scene from chapter 9 that ends with her feeling tired and disillusioned, instead of revitalised; but it's a pretty good piece of writing (I think), so I kept it.
And then there are scenes that got cut because they interfered with the structure of various chapters. Again, for example, in chapter 9 I have an extended scene with just Haruka and Michiru. It's a good scene, but it had to go because I had a rule for the Crystal Tokyo flashbacks, that there always had to be a survivor (Rei, Makoto or Artemis) present in every scene. (Otherwise, how could anyone know what had happened?)
And then I have an alternate version of chapter 10, almost complete—48,000 words worth. There was a major sub-plot about Iku running all through that chapter, and at the very last minute, with the chapter 98% complete, I decided to cut it out because it would have made the next few chapters very difficult to write, structurally. (That sub-plot explains some of the odder parts of the chapter that got left in: for example, the scene with Tsukamoto at the beginning originally had a point.)
I may post some of this stuff, someday, as an "omake" appendix. I think I've posted one or two of them in this blog, actually. But the alternate chapter 10 will have to wait; it would spoil upcoming chapter. And who knows? I might manage to re-use some of the material, eventually.
Angus, I love it! That scene is so perfect: the banter is great!
Go go go!!
Lynz.
*blushes* Thank you! As I said I will draw more once I get some time to. Tons of ideas already.
AHHH AND TEASER! Not fair. Gah. Can't wait. Will be eagerly awaiting when the chapter is posted!
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