Kyrnie edit update

[marfisk]

I'm done for the week so I suppose this is as good a time as any to give an update on Kyrnie. I retyped 11,775 words this week. That means some copying and a lot of rewriting from scratch. This is a difficult place in the novel because the scenes have all been reorganized to increase tension. Sounds great on paper, but what it means in reality is going through every single scene and making sure all the references and threads still tie in.

In some, it was simple. A character mentions seeing the boat leave before the boat has left. Fine. I just cut that part out. However, in others, it's more subtle. They go visit a character in the dark. From hints, it's set up to be the same night Kyrnie is declared insane (yeah, fun stuff ;)), but it can't because two other scenes have now interceded that push the scene in question a whole day. Fine. But then what did Kyrnie do for that day? If she twiddled her thumbs, something is really wrong with the reorganization. Ah, but she can spend it battering her mind for memories about a map that she had with her in the old version and is now scraps of ash back at her village.

So, in that tangled paragraph, I hope to give you some sense of what I'm dealing with. In general, it means the edit goes slowly with great "rethink" periods when I try to make the new organization make sense. I'm a fast typist. If all I needed to do was keying, I'd have finished this weeks ago. Still, I'm coming in close and I have hopes (faint ones, but hopes) that the end of September will see Kyrnie to the end of her new stage.

Current total: 84104
Goal: 117935
remainder by word count: 33831
Actual to do: 46084 (Yes, this means I've added just under 13k)
If finished by October 1st:
1487 per day, 10407 per week (31 days)

Comments

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I know. I'm not quite to the "fiddle with the timeline" stage for Unlocked (first I have to fill in all the scenes I just kind of sketched out, including the "Some other character's POV should go here." scenes), and then I'll try and figure out how to make sense of the story itself.

[bonniers.livejournal.com]

Good luck with getting it done. I've been going through the same process with Joey for most of the year and it is not fun. It's rewarding in its own way because I can see the story taking the shape I want it to have and finally telling the story I want to tell. But it's not fun.

[marfisk]

Good luck with it. Sounds like you're a step ahead of me though. I write chronologically, so this is very difficult for me, but I see the need for it to be done. I have no idea how I'd manage scenes written out of order because each of mine are building blocks and need the framework of the ones below to hold them up.

[marfisk]

Eh, I've been right there with you, only I was hiding out :D. I actually have to say that it is fun...sometimes. I like when I redo a scene only to find the scene notes afterwards but when I read them, I did everything I thought necessary. And I really do like how the story is coming out stronger. There's much to like. It's just a lot of darn hard work :p.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah...the map burned. Good job. I like that. Hey, you're doing great! Valerie

[marfisk]

Eh, can't take credit for it. I may have come up with the lyrics, but the song was pure Justin. He says to me Kyrnie can't have the map and hang around. Just not happening :).