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Last week, I was miserably behind my scene edits for Vega. Partly it was because I decided to recharge my batteries (by playing computer games) on weekend, partly because it is almost impossible to work on edits the way I want to in my usual tram commute time. That means two things.
First, I will edit Vega “my way”, which won’t necessarily be the best, but at least that will be better than doing next to nothing. I’ll still use HTRYN course as a guide and help, just the work process will be different. If I fail, well, then at least I’ll know that my way doesn’t work. For now, I am going to concentrate on scene read-through and edits on the level of conflict and logical flow of events, as well as proper character story archs (which is the biggest problem anyway, since it seems that I had written Vega with no logic at all involved). Then, I’ll concentrate on details and stuff. The main objective is to find a way to do it all on my netbook, with possibly a notepad and some index cards involved. It will look more like a complete rewrite than an edit, but a rewrite is really what I need at this point. I’m feeling rather enthusiastic about it all.
Second, right now my top priority is that commisioned story that I have to write. I am still not happy about it, but this morning, I got it started, and I sort of like the main characters and the main problems they will be facing. Still, this will be one of the hardest writing jobs I’ve ever done, and a major test for my career as a pro writer (yeah, I know… but come on, everybody has to have something to motivate themselves to go to day job in Monday mornings, and my motivation is “right now, I will work hard and learn, and if I’m really really good, I will be a pro writer at some point and won’t have to do all that crap”… which is, by the way, wrong on several levels, but my Monday-morning-mind usually isn’t alert enough to point that out).