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turpsI started The End 3 last night. I'd been procrastinating a little as I know this part's going to be bleak too, but Starwatcher gave some good advice. I'm going to write Chapter's 3 and 4 then post one after another because the good stuff starts to happen in 4. SW also said that you don't immedialtey have to post what you write, and that's good advice too. But I have to admit it's something I find difficult. I write something, I want it posted *now*. I am getting a little better, but it's a fault that I still need to work at. So I'll do two parts and hopefully they'll even the balance a little for all the readers that I bummed out last time.
I also got a mail today from Pat about part 2. ( Hope you don't mind me mentioning it Pat.) She told me what she liked, then what she hadn't, and that was good to read. I think it's the first time that anyone other than my betas has spent the time to tell me where I fell on the job and what she said was spot on.
There was one point she mentioned that had been brought up by both my betas, and I thought that I'd solved it by adding some description in a few paragraphs. It was a bone of contention for both ME and SW and in the end I think they settled for the way I solved it, because looking back now I should have wrote more, not just tried to modify what I had. They tried to tell me, I didn't listen, and I suspect it's a plot hole that would have been picked up by a lot of readers. Like I said, I'm an impatient writer.I love the actual act of writing, creating scenes and worlds, I hate editing but it's something that I have to improve.
I've no illusions that I'm a great writer yet. I'm better than I was a year ago but I still need to master the fine tuning. Realise that papering over plot holes is sloppy writing, that attention to detail is vital. I can describe well, but it's like having a beautiful mural on a wall with the brick crumbling behind the paint. It looks good from a distance, but look closer and there's bumps and holes that spoil the effect.
I could easily stay at the level I am now. I've people that will praise everything I post, even the crap, and I've posted crap many times. Hell I could post at FFNet and be seen as some kind of genius. But I don't want that. I don't know if that makes me an egotistical bitch or not. Maybe some people can only rise to one level and not go higher, but hell, it doesn't mean that I'm not going to try.
I also got a mail today from Pat about part 2. ( Hope you don't mind me mentioning it Pat.) She told me what she liked, then what she hadn't, and that was good to read. I think it's the first time that anyone other than my betas has spent the time to tell me where I fell on the job and what she said was spot on.
There was one point she mentioned that had been brought up by both my betas, and I thought that I'd solved it by adding some description in a few paragraphs. It was a bone of contention for both ME and SW and in the end I think they settled for the way I solved it, because looking back now I should have wrote more, not just tried to modify what I had. They tried to tell me, I didn't listen, and I suspect it's a plot hole that would have been picked up by a lot of readers. Like I said, I'm an impatient writer.I love the actual act of writing, creating scenes and worlds, I hate editing but it's something that I have to improve.
I've no illusions that I'm a great writer yet. I'm better than I was a year ago but I still need to master the fine tuning. Realise that papering over plot holes is sloppy writing, that attention to detail is vital. I can describe well, but it's like having a beautiful mural on a wall with the brick crumbling behind the paint. It looks good from a distance, but look closer and there's bumps and holes that spoil the effect.
I could easily stay at the level I am now. I've people that will praise everything I post, even the crap, and I've posted crap many times. Hell I could post at FFNet and be seen as some kind of genius. But I don't want that. I don't know if that makes me an egotistical bitch or not. Maybe some people can only rise to one level and not go higher, but hell, it doesn't mean that I'm not going to try.
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Date: 2003-08-06 08:16 am (UTC)Some people can be content with the way things are, and that's okay, but when you feel the desire to improve things, then it's the right thing to do.
Improving our work is important to us. I think it's also being respectful to our readers, to always want to write better, and be able to give them even better stories to read. It's not always easy, but it if was, it wouldn't be fun, right? lol