Taking Things Apart
Jan. 8th, 2010 05:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmerriamYesterday, I pulled out my trunk novel and started taking it apart.
I get this novel out from time to time as I advance as a writer. I examine it, trying to see where I went wrong. It has plenty of good parts, but is structurally a mess. Looking at it, I decided to rip out one major subplot and take out several characters, roiling their purposes up into other existing characters, with the possibility of adding or reworking one minor character to fill a gap.
There are good bones here, but it is sagging under its own weight.
I also wrote 500 words on a new story, so it's not all about fixing an old novel.
I get this novel out from time to time as I advance as a writer. I examine it, trying to see where I went wrong. It has plenty of good parts, but is structurally a mess. Looking at it, I decided to rip out one major subplot and take out several characters, roiling their purposes up into other existing characters, with the possibility of adding or reworking one minor character to fill a gap.
There are good bones here, but it is sagging under its own weight.
I also wrote 500 words on a new story, so it's not all about fixing an old novel.
