And I can't spell Dalmatian.
Anyway.
This draft is coming up in spots. Some are big, splotchy spots. Some are short, spotty spots. Some are wibbly-wobbly spots connected by smaller, speckly spots. It's spotted. One, it's spotted by narrators. So far, I've had five characters narrate. Three characters narrate one chapter. Ask me how I did it. Go on. Ask. Or shake your head, that's a perfectly rational response. Truth be told, I have no idea how I did it. I want to believe I didn't do it, it just sort of happened, and that relieves me of a bit of the shame that comes when I go back and read this draft. Provided I ever finish. Two, it's not coming up chronologically. It's divided into three chunks. I have bits of the second chunk written, along with the snout beginning of the first chunk, and the tail end as well. Then there's a long weird not-prologue-prologue chapter that's already a small mountain of pages, but only the beginning, the end of the middle, and the beginning of the end are written, but not what comes in between, nor the end. Ask how that happened. Ask.
...Don't ask. It's a scary, scary happening that I can't say I did on purpose. I've operated my entire writing life under the believe that writers write books from start to finish, but that's not how this one is working out. If it is working out. I'll get back to you on that.
More coffee.
3 comments:
It's okay to write your novel in non-chronological order. Truly, I believe this, and it's okay for you to feel scared, but know that I, at least, think it's perfectly fine. Also, at least it's getting written, yeah?
As for the random small mountain -- you're going to get through those pages. And you're going to sort out those narrators. Yup. I have no words of wisdom but billions of words of faith in you, Glenna.
So glad you're still alive and kicking, girl. <3
^^That above comment was from me, Yahong. My Google accounts switched on me. >_>
I wrote the end of my book before I wrote the beginning and I when I wrote the middle, it was all sorts of mixed up.
Maybe that's why it's taking me so freaking long to get it edited, but HEY, at least we're not alone in our non-conformity to chronologicalness, right?
Chronologicialness? Maybe I should get off the internet now...
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