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Finished a Draft Tonight
Aug. 15th, 2011 03:08 amI had been tinkering with a re-write of a story originally written at 500 words, but felt that was too short for its natural length. I'd been wanting it to be 1000 words, and now it's 1380. I may cut it back to 1000 just to be ornery.
It was originally written as a single scene that spanned about a week. Then I cut it into three scenes, then the other day I realized I wanted it to have an A-B-A-B-A-B-A structure, with the B being the original scenes and the A scenes being smaller in words and time.
The more interesting bit was that I realized in the shower this morning that the main character wasn't white. I'd never really thought about his ethnicity before -- it wasn't really a part of the story as I'd envisioned it. Knowing his background made the remaining pieces fall together, so I get the bigger arc that's not in this story, but informs it. It was there all along, I just didn't see it.
It was originally written as a single scene that spanned about a week. Then I cut it into three scenes, then the other day I realized I wanted it to have an A-B-A-B-A-B-A structure, with the B being the original scenes and the A scenes being smaller in words and time.
The more interesting bit was that I realized in the shower this morning that the main character wasn't white. I'd never really thought about his ethnicity before -- it wasn't really a part of the story as I'd envisioned it. Knowing his background made the remaining pieces fall together, so I get the bigger arc that's not in this story, but informs it. It was there all along, I just didn't see it.