Woke this morning, before 4 a.m. (not unusual) and used the time before getting up to think about my current wip, always a useful exercise as I spend far too long sitting at the keyboard typing not thinking.
I use a dialogue a lot to progress the plot, and realised that thus far no-one has even mentioned that there is a four week gap between man disappearing and man dying, never mind wondered why.
I know what happened (mostly) but they don't. You'd think they would ask, wouldn't you?
At least I have the word-room to write it - a tightening of style, a reduction of characters, a more focused approach means thus far this is still well under 80K.
Onwards.
That's a very interesting point, Sandra, maybe you should talk to yourself more often. Sod the funny looks you get from people. lol
ReplyDeleteRight..it is so hard to edit while typing! Glad you caught it and are filling in. What are you doing up at 4AM??
ReplyDeleteI got to the end of my WIP, felt really pleased, then woke at around 3am with the realisation that one element which I carefully and dilligently woven throughout, was not explained or even used a the end. I'd completely forgotten to put it in even though it had a fairly major part to play! In agreement with Baz. Definitely worth having a chat with yourself :)
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