damn you, space story
Mar. 10th, 2011 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishI can't just file off the rough edges and send it in with the current structure. I can't. I've been trying for weeks and all I can see is how it's wrong, wrong, wrong.
So instead I'm trying to rewrite the damned thing. Which is emphatically not how I wanted to spend my writing time for the next couple of weeks.
I have a pretty good idea of how to restructure it, anyway. It's only got three bits that will be difficult to pare down to a single viewpoint. One can probably be dispensed with altogether, and I've figured out how to make a second work. It's the third, the visceral "oh my god" moment, that's going to be difficult.
Oh well. If it was easy everyone would be doing it.
Goal: in the mail to Viable Paradise by 3/18.
Reward: ... I get to go down to Richmond and explain touilos's parents that we're moving across three thousand miles and an international border? Yeah. I'll come up with something.
So instead I'm trying to rewrite the damned thing. Which is emphatically not how I wanted to spend my writing time for the next couple of weeks.
I have a pretty good idea of how to restructure it, anyway. It's only got three bits that will be difficult to pare down to a single viewpoint. One can probably be dispensed with altogether, and I've figured out how to make a second work. It's the third, the visceral "oh my god" moment, that's going to be difficult.
Oh well. If it was easy everyone would be doing it.
Goal: in the mail to Viable Paradise by 3/18.
Reward: ... I get to go down to Richmond and explain to
uilos's parents that we're moving across three thousand miles and an international border? Yeah. I'll come up with something.