"Red Sands" Week Two
Jan. 17th, 2010 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kristen999Where I bable about this week's progress.
In the last seven days I completely re-read my draft and added a few things and tweaked other stuff. I revisited my outline, the last few chapters being very anemic in terms of details. Several were just blurbs of the major action or emotional conflict with the dots in between completely blank.
I discovered I had 3/4s of a chapter nine on my hard drive and I completed it and started chapter ten!
Crawling inside the minds of John Sheppard and Ronon Dex is taxing. Both men are of few words, yet they find themselves together alone for long periods of time. Conversationalists they are not!
Add in that the major tenant of this story is that John and Ronon under go major role reversals and it leaves my brain spinning on how to covey such things in terms of subtle action instead of spoon feeding the reader which I hate. Chapter ten was giving me fits, so I started out by writing the dialogue first and will build up the rest of the scene once I establish a flow.
This week’s Progress:
2k words.
Next week's Goals:
I’d like to get a good foothold in chapter ten written in the upcoming week. It’s going to be a long section with, most of the action having a gigantic impact on the rest of the story.
In the last seven days I completely re-read my draft and added a few things and tweaked other stuff. I revisited my outline, the last few chapters being very anemic in terms of details. Several were just blurbs of the major action or emotional conflict with the dots in between completely blank.
I discovered I had 3/4s of a chapter nine on my hard drive and I completed it and started chapter ten!
Crawling inside the minds of John Sheppard and Ronon Dex is taxing. Both men are of few words, yet they find themselves together alone for long periods of time. Conversationalists they are not!
Add in that the major tenant of this story is that John and Ronon under go major role reversals and it leaves my brain spinning on how to covey such things in terms of subtle action instead of spoon feeding the reader which I hate. Chapter ten was giving me fits, so I started out by writing the dialogue first and will build up the rest of the scene once I establish a flow.
This week’s Progress:
2k words.
Next week's Goals:
I’d like to get a good foothold in chapter ten written in the upcoming week. It’s going to be a long section with, most of the action having a gigantic impact on the rest of the story.
