Topic: Notes
Yesterday I printed out what I had written on "Presage" and had doubts. Some parts were a chore to read, some parts weren't giving me the emotions I wanted to have, and some seem to be trivial information.
The odd thing about this is that it reflects that if I attempt to do something with a definitive plot, it turns to shit. All the work that I did on "Presage" was to flesh out the core of the story that I had been working on and which would have been included in the final drafts. I reread that and am amazed that I was already hitting all the notes I wanted to hit in something more off the cuff and stream of thought, and with much better flow. This section would have been Part 4, if I keep writing "Presage" they way I'm currently doing.
But Part 1, 2 and the unwritten 3 are really too far from the climax, and though they are ment to tell the reader something about Roco Bellero, I feel that what I wrote before tells a better story of who the man is without all the extra bullshit. Sometimes cheese and pepperoni are all the toppings you need.
So . . . what am I going to do with parts 1 and 2, with the volopter action scenes and the girl he had to kiss to get the message he had another job? I don't know. Maybe scrap them. That part of the process. Maybe rework part 1, because what was going on with Eckon and the human machines has something to do with the overall story.
But I like what I was doing before I meddled with it, so I'll have to pick up where I left off. After-all, do we really care how Roco gets to Mercator? Its what he does on Mercator that drives the other stories forward, (and in some sense backward.)
I already have 3800 words on it (and it will be titled "Presage") and will post when it's done.
