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Jul. 12th, 2010 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishWords: 870
Total words: 3203
Tyop du jour: transmited
Neat things: Fimbulcorp's plan revealed. Carter gets snappish.
Today started with beating my head against the "don't wanna write this" wall again. Which made no sense, because this was the part with the AI and was going to be fun. Eventually I realised that it might be fun but it didn't belong in this story, in spite of having been one of the things that got me started /writing/ this story. It overcomplicated the exposition and didn't provide anything that the existing characters couldn't get on their own. So I tore out about two hundred words of subplot device.
Then I undid the bigger of the two changes I made yesterday, because now I need that faster pace and heightened tension. "This is going to be bad-- oh crap, it's worse!" is better for this story than "What is this? --Oh crap, it's bad!" and, having removed the AI entirely, I no longer need to make room for unrelated things to happen.
After that I just wrote, and it felt pretty good despite involving tearing out half the work I'd done yesterday.
Part of one more expositionaryish scene to go, and then a transitional panicking scene, and then, I think, the big confrontation. And the ending, and then maybe a coda. Looks like it'll come in under 5000 words. Doable.
Total words: 3203
Tyop du jour: transmited
Neat things: Fimbulcorp's plan revealed. Carter gets snappish.
Today started with beating my head against the "don't wanna write this" wall again. Which made no sense, because this was the part with the AI and was going to be fun. Eventually I realised that it might be fun but it didn't belong in this story, in spite of having been one of the things that got me started /writing/ this story. It overcomplicated the exposition and didn't provide anything that the existing characters couldn't get on their own. So I tore out about two hundred words of subplot device.
Then I undid the bigger of the two changes I made yesterday, because now I need that faster pace and heightened tension. "This is going to be bad-- oh crap, it's worse!" is better for this story than "What is this? --Oh crap, it's bad!" and, having removed the AI entirely, I no longer need to make room for unrelated things to happen.
After that I just wrote, and it felt pretty good despite involving tearing out half the work I'd done yesterday.
Part of one more expositionaryish scene to go, and then a transitional panicking scene, and then, I think, the big confrontation. And the ending, and then maybe a coda. Looks like it'll come in under 5000 words. Doable.