Found Art: Seeing Is Believing
Oct. 31st, 2007 12:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marfiskI'm nearing the middle of my first pass edit of Seeing Is Believing and the edit seems to be progressing nicely. I wondered a lot as I was writing whether this would hold together, and I'm still not quite sure. The story is a story, not a random jumble of scenes, but I still worry that it won't come together, that I'm pushing the "main points" too hard, or that no one will get it at all. Maybe all this proves is that I'm a worrier?
Anyway, since I don't have anything fascinating to report besides progress, I thought I'd toss this post in out of order (which is ironic as you'll soon discover). I was going through my files and discovered this post that never made it to the blog. So enjoy a glimpse into the past, when I thought Seeing would never come to an end :).
Seeing Is Believing is now underway again. I had a bit of a hard time starting up after a one month leave of absence besides working on the outline, but not for any of the usual reasons. I got to where I had stopped the previous time and was reading back a bit to get into it when I found a place that made no sense. Even worse, I remembered writing more at that point and those words appeared to have vanished. I spent some panicky moments searching old backups and high and low, but there was just no sign of them at all. Finally, I decided it was a matter of thinking I'd written them because of my detailed outline and that I hadn't actually done so.
Happily, this tale has a better resolution than the depressing one above, and a reminder of why I do not write out of order :p. I had a very concrete image for a scene I was not anywhere near. Instead of ignoring it as I usually do, I went ahead and wrote it, then marked the break with *** so I could easily find my place.
Well, what had happened was simple. One of my writing sessions, not the most recent but the one before that, I had forgotten how I should search for the *** and start writing above it. Following my normal pattern, I had continued the scene at the very end of the file. Then the next time, I remembered and wrote from the ***, stranding that partial scene off at the end of the book. Honestly, I don't know how people manage to write out of order. It's so difficult to keep track of. However, in this case, I accidentally went to the end of the doc and a phrase caught my eye, a phrase that happens in the story well before the extra scene I have floating out there waiting for me to catch up. There were my missing words, and luckily, I found them before I'd rewritten the whole thing.
So, though I don't have the spreadsheet open to get the stats, I have now passed the 50k mark on the story and hope to go back to progressing at a somewhat steady 7k a week or so.
Anyway, since I don't have anything fascinating to report besides progress, I thought I'd toss this post in out of order (which is ironic as you'll soon discover). I was going through my files and discovered this post that never made it to the blog. So enjoy a glimpse into the past, when I thought Seeing would never come to an end :).
Seeing Is Believing is now underway again. I had a bit of a hard time starting up after a one month leave of absence besides working on the outline, but not for any of the usual reasons. I got to where I had stopped the previous time and was reading back a bit to get into it when I found a place that made no sense. Even worse, I remembered writing more at that point and those words appeared to have vanished. I spent some panicky moments searching old backups and high and low, but there was just no sign of them at all. Finally, I decided it was a matter of thinking I'd written them because of my detailed outline and that I hadn't actually done so.
Happily, this tale has a better resolution than the depressing one above, and a reminder of why I do not write out of order :p. I had a very concrete image for a scene I was not anywhere near. Instead of ignoring it as I usually do, I went ahead and wrote it, then marked the break with *** so I could easily find my place.
Well, what had happened was simple. One of my writing sessions, not the most recent but the one before that, I had forgotten how I should search for the *** and start writing above it. Following my normal pattern, I had continued the scene at the very end of the file. Then the next time, I remembered and wrote from the ***, stranding that partial scene off at the end of the book. Honestly, I don't know how people manage to write out of order. It's so difficult to keep track of. However, in this case, I accidentally went to the end of the doc and a phrase caught my eye, a phrase that happens in the story well before the extra scene I have floating out there waiting for me to catch up. There were my missing words, and luckily, I found them before I'd rewritten the whole thing.
So, though I don't have the spreadsheet open to get the stats, I have now passed the 50k mark on the story and hope to go back to progressing at a somewhat steady 7k a week or so.
