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A serious mistake
Sep. 29th, 2009 11:48 amI'm back on deck writing chapters. Posted a fresh one this morning, after spending the past week basically rejigging the existing sequence and expanding a chapter I called "Week link".
Yeah, I know that a serial novel should stay as originally published, but honestly, i don't think i have that many readers. Yet. The thing should be presented in its best possible light, be self-consistent, hang together, be nicely paced and so on.
Alexander McCall Smith, contemporary champion of the artform, wrote his chapters a week or so in advance. He could fiddle around with them before putting them up for public display. And once they are published in a newspaper, well you just can't go back and change them!
But your humble procrastinator, always doing things at the last moment if he can't put them off to the next day, is posting them for the public as they are written.
Looking at my last post, I think I said a bit more than i meant to. for purposes of pacing, some of this stuff belongs in a later episode, otherwise the thing will peak too soon.
I'll be revising it soon, but if anyone is interested, http://www.skyring.com.au/Skyring/Monash_Drive/Entries/2009/9/28_11._Private_chats.html
In other news, the North Canberra community council wants me to write an article about the project for their website.
Yeah, I know that a serial novel should stay as originally published, but honestly, i don't think i have that many readers. Yet. The thing should be presented in its best possible light, be self-consistent, hang together, be nicely paced and so on.
Alexander McCall Smith, contemporary champion of the artform, wrote his chapters a week or so in advance. He could fiddle around with them before putting them up for public display. And once they are published in a newspaper, well you just can't go back and change them!
But your humble procrastinator, always doing things at the last moment if he can't put them off to the next day, is posting them for the public as they are written.
Looking at my last post, I think I said a bit more than i meant to. for purposes of pacing, some of this stuff belongs in a later episode, otherwise the thing will peak too soon.
I'll be revising it soon, but if anyone is interested, http://www.skyring.com.au/Skyring/Monash_Drive/Entries/2009/9/28_11._Private_chats.html
In other news, the North Canberra community council wants me to write an article about the project for their website.
