I finished revised chapter 6 . . . and fail. I had to dump the whole thing. Try again tonight.
'Sleeper'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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I hate when that happens.
I should be able to look at the last bit you sent me tonight, and get back to you. Sorry for the late.
No need to be sorry.
I'm going to cut most of what was in six and move the parts I need into other places. The good part of this is that I'm going to reconnect to my rough draft very soon now. The first 16,000 words of the rough draft pretty much got thrown away.
I am not a hack. I can finish this book. I am not a hack. I can finish this book.
Oh dear. I think I am broken.
Allyson is not a hack. She can finish this book.
I concur.
Far from a hack, Allyson. You can finish that book. Do you need a reader? I can be late getting back to you, too!
I am a hack AND broken. I win?
I finished revised chapter 6 . . . and fail. I had to dump the whole thing. Try again tonight.
I do hope that by "dump the whole thing" you mean, "copied it into a file labeled 'Deleted scenes/chapters' and saved it because you never know when it can come in HANDY."
::ahem::
I may be a bit testy about these things.
And dammit, I'm not a hack-- publishing's just stupid.
I do hope that by "dump the whole thing" you mean, "copied it into a file labeled 'Deleted scenes/chapters' and saved it because you never know when it can come in HANDY."
Probably not a bad idea, but I'm pretty sure this won't come in handy. The chapter turned into a pile of things that have to happen and stuff that needs to get conveyed with some stilted dialogue and clunky narrative to paste it together. It turned out icky. I tried to spice it up by moving another event forward, but it fell flat. I'm going to chop it up, redistribute, and flush the paste.