J project is completed in the first version to three-quarters, or was it until I have today placed on computers and have begun to revise it. Now first 30,000 characters has less. Twenty pages - just gone, and I have done him some good. The novel.
I always notice exactly where is not my text is wrong, and I knew all the time, where it hooked. Only I thought I could muddle through me. By cheating but never works. In reading through I stay depends on the Mogelstellen. Here you have it but you just made, between the lines. And then I sit down turn again, and again, and if need be, once again.
It is almost never about language problems, but of ideas. How do I get my character into a certain position in order to underpin this or that action believable? My story will take at a certain point a new turn. The way this has happened, I am not yet convinced. I thought I could find something better.
helps in such situations, only one thing: the notebook. So I lay on my bed, take a black pen (really deep black, he must write, but not too fat - raise not so easy). And then I start to make some notes. Afterwards I hurt the back, because it is quite uncomfortable to lie on your stomach and write, but to me the best ideas come easily. Surefire Recipe works, always. When I put the pen, I have no idea what comes of it. But it comes.
I guess I take these things from the collective consciousness about the way one buys a package of sugar from the kitchen Cabinet, of which one no longer knows exactly where one has put it.
This time I needed an idea how I could motivate my character to change sides. And I got one. The additional problem with a minor character detached that I grind my teeth for weeks. Two in one, wonderful.
Now I wonder why this idea came to me is not already half a year ago. Then I would have today are not have to delete 30 000 characters and I saved a lot of work. I'm happy anyway. Because my story is more credible now, elegant and exciting. I hope.
Thank collective consciousness.
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