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annaverePart eight of Mirror, fully drafted! Not much to boast of, since it mostly consists of a bunch of people monologuing in a room. More exciting than it sounds? Well, to me... All 20,779 words... Anyway, since dialogue is the only part of writing I was actually reasonably competent at back then, most of it was easy to clean up, hence the double-quick turnaround.
The ending was a mess, though. That took some time to improve. Also, my lazy writing crutch of choice was apparently keeping secrets. I keep tripping over them and going "huh?" and then hacking away at them with a machete. A couple are actually integral to the character arcs, but the rest are weird and pointless, so then I have to go looking for a logical place to have character A just talk to character B like a sensible person.
Whenever I post one of these updates, it's never just the current portion I worked on, and always necessitates some small degree of alteration to some of the previous drafts as well.
Up next is part nine, which is when I realized on my first attempt at writing this over-ambitious fic that there were massive structural problems that needed to be dealt with before I could proceed, and consequently from here through part twelve (when I gave up) are an increasing number of placeholder scenes, present-tense recaps and hasty notes for "later." Oh dear...
The ending was a mess, though. That took some time to improve. Also, my lazy writing crutch of choice was apparently keeping secrets. I keep tripping over them and going "huh?" and then hacking away at them with a machete. A couple are actually integral to the character arcs, but the rest are weird and pointless, so then I have to go looking for a logical place to have character A just talk to character B like a sensible person.
Whenever I post one of these updates, it's never just the current portion I worked on, and always necessitates some small degree of alteration to some of the previous drafts as well.
Up next is part nine, which is when I realized on my first attempt at writing this over-ambitious fic that there were massive structural problems that needed to be dealt with before I could proceed, and consequently from here through part twelve (when I gave up) are an increasing number of placeholder scenes, present-tense recaps and hasty notes for "later." Oh dear...
