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Aug. 2nd, 2012 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerAs you may or may not recall, I've been working on a teen novel about a high school senior named Sage.
Well, "novel" is possibly a little strong. It's more than long enough to be a novel, but it's more like a series of loosely connected vignettes featuring a rotating constellation of characters, some of whom have what a generous person might term "story arcs," but most of whom simply fall off the face of the earth.
Clearly, something had to be done.
So I've spent the week pruning subplots. Away with the newspaper! Adios to most of the colleges subplot! Even Geneva must go!
Geneva the character, not the city. She wants to be called Jen; Sage thinks it's ridiculous to truncate an awesome name like Geneva, and therefore never remembers to do so. Their friendship was doomed anyway, but nonetheless having to cut it out of the novel felt like clubbing a baby seal to death.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, what's left may actually be coherent and have an emotional arc and, you know, all that other good stuff. And I have ideas for how the story ends now! Or if not ends, precisely, at least I know what the climax looks like.
Well, "novel" is possibly a little strong. It's more than long enough to be a novel, but it's more like a series of loosely connected vignettes featuring a rotating constellation of characters, some of whom have what a generous person might term "story arcs," but most of whom simply fall off the face of the earth.
Clearly, something had to be done.
So I've spent the week pruning subplots. Away with the newspaper! Adios to most of the colleges subplot! Even Geneva must go!
Geneva the character, not the city. She wants to be called Jen; Sage thinks it's ridiculous to truncate an awesome name like Geneva, and therefore never remembers to do so. Their friendship was doomed anyway, but nonetheless having to cut it out of the novel felt like clubbing a baby seal to death.
ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, what's left may actually be coherent and have an emotional arc and, you know, all that other good stuff. And I have ideas for how the story ends now! Or if not ends, precisely, at least I know what the climax looks like.
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Date: 2012-08-03 03:14 am (UTC)Good luck finishing!
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Date: 2012-08-03 04:23 am (UTC)Then again, once I'm back in school, working on my novel will be a distraction from real work and therefore infinitely easier than it is now. Constructive procrastination! It's a thing!