#10 I'm atually going to do it this time...

By which I mean editing.

Long time since I wrote here, mostly because I haven't been writing so much story-wise and so I have less cause to procrastinate. And, of course, I've been trying to edit. Still.

I was thinking of attempting Script Frenzy this month since my last NaNo project would lend itself quite nicely to radio, but then I spotted the gigantic flaw in my plan. Three characters, and sometimes an extra two, are mute and communicate by notes. This isn't a problem for two of them,. I can have the people reading the notes read them out loud. The third character, Delphine, is a problem. She need to have a real presence and I just don't think that's going to happen on a radio script if she never says a word. I can't see a way to make it work and I'm not doing a half-arsed job just for the sake of doing it. I did wonder about assigning her something like a leit motif, but I'm really not sure that will work in a way that won't sound like Mitchell and Webbs green clarinet of whatever it was.

So, with that abandoned for now I've gone back to trying to find a way to restructure A Measure of Life in a way that pleases me. I have one scene that screams to me that it's the place to start. I just have too much story before that and I really do need at least some of it. Part of my problem is that I shift POV about half way through the story. I don't see this is a huge problem. The focus shifts and obviously you need to see what's going on. Also, the story does not work with one POV. If you never see inside Zillah's head she appears to be a very nasty piece of work. Things are more complicated than that.

So... my latest plan is to divide the whole thing into three. It feels neat and as I spend a lot of time talking about threes in there it seems about right. One section for each principle character, and the story sort of work that way anyway. I still don't get to start where I want to but at least there's a structure and I have a Plan.

I'm trying the idea of writing scenes down on cards and shuffling them around, since I've heard various people say it work for them. It doesn't seem to work for me.

Ah. And I need to update my books since it looks like I've read nothing this year...