back for some more hack and slash...

I'd like to get some scenes revised today, not sure what I can do in an evening, so this will be interesting.

Tomorrow I might have most of the day to revise; I'm looking forward to that.

Will update soon.

more pretties

Fighting my way through another kill zone.  Oh the pretties.
This is very hard: The paragraph is a mess but I love the sentences.


update: 4 scenes revised now. working on the 5th
I spend 5 mins, trying so hard to keep a sentence. Remove the sentence.
The paragragh works as though it was never there.
doesn't sound like much but it seems like they're should be some unrecoverable harm when removing one of the darlings...

update 7:11pm: new total 19.  That's 12 total today.

Kill the darlings

Kill the darlings has taken on a whole new meaning for me while I've revised.

To me, it used to mean a clever turn of phrase that a writer couldn't bare to part with because it was just so...
Since I don't have those- hah!- I thought I wouldn't face it

I finally understand that it means anything you love.

This morning I came thisclose (for the millionth time) of giving up on the whole thing.  I faced a scene with dozens of phrases and bits of character interaction that were so right, said just the right thing, but needed to go.

I couldn't face it.

I knew it was a better writer than I who can kill their darlings.

But I forced myself to go back and face the cutting floor.  I saved them out to the document notes section of Scrivener.

The scene survived the loss. It's okay.

Rinse, repeat x 100.

Revision begins...

Finally revising.  I'm filling in plot holes and adding backstory.

7 scenes revised yesterday.