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So, yesterday I started editing The Novel again. From the beginning. Using the notes I made from reading the first draft.
A beta reader pointed out that, despite having three main POV characters, there's only one voice. While that worked for Tolkien, it's not quite in fashion today. I really hope my writing process isn't "write in Authorial Voice, then add character's voice in revisions," because that's seriously a pain in the ass, and I'm only on the first scene still. Hopefully future projects will have learned from this one.
I've found Atesh's voice, though. He's pretty easy. Hikaru and Azar may be harder.
I have a huge chunk of scene 1 highlighted in orange, so I can go back and edit it later. It's a bit of a fight scene, and I want to get through this chapter before getting bogged down in fight choreography.
Yes, there's a fight in the first scene. It's that sort of book, though a fair amount of it is spent politicking and getting from A to B.
... I'm never gonna sell this thing, am I?
Anyway, football match in 30. Not quite enough time to get into editing mode, though Scrivener's open and waiting. This frazzing tinnitus makes it really damn hard to concentrate.
A beta reader pointed out that, despite having three main POV characters, there's only one voice. While that worked for Tolkien, it's not quite in fashion today. I really hope my writing process isn't "write in Authorial Voice, then add character's voice in revisions," because that's seriously a pain in the ass, and I'm only on the first scene still. Hopefully future projects will have learned from this one.
I've found Atesh's voice, though. He's pretty easy. Hikaru and Azar may be harder.
I have a huge chunk of scene 1 highlighted in orange, so I can go back and edit it later. It's a bit of a fight scene, and I want to get through this chapter before getting bogged down in fight choreography.
Yes, there's a fight in the first scene. It's that sort of book, though a fair amount of it is spent politicking and getting from A to B.
... I'm never gonna sell this thing, am I?
Anyway, football match in 30. Not quite enough time to get into editing mode, though Scrivener's open and waiting. This frazzing tinnitus makes it really damn hard to concentrate.
