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So, more revisions today. Yesterday, I spent the morning finishing up the rest of chapter 5 and then worked on chapter 6 and 7 in the afternoon. Neither of those chapters required much in the way of work, just a few adjustments. For example, since it was suggested that I work in a little bit more of the religion of the human race in the book, I decided to add in a head priest in an earlier chapter. It also became obvious that if I placed this head priest into the picture, that he'd notice that the wagon train group didn't have a priest and would want someone to go with them. So I added in a priest traveling with the group. Wherever appropriate, I inserted references to this new priest in the group. I'm not doing much to make this priest a character of huge significance, but I might need to go back and put in a little more character references.
I'm now up to a point where I need to add in more significant scenes from a main character's POV, so the revisions will likely slow down a little bit.
I figured I'd show you guys what I did with that "resurrected" scene the other day, sort of a "before" and "after" picture. This was the scene that I deleted in my zest to cut words from the manuscript:
( A long scene )
Now, as I said a few days ago, I couldn't just plop this scene back into the story because things had changed significantly enough that I had to put it into a different location. So the setting had changed, and the characters present, and . . . well, you get the idea. So, after plopping this scene as is into the appropriate new location, I had to knead it and meld it into place so that it fit and didn't feel out of place and when you're reading didn't feel like it had been inserted at a later time. Here's the new version:
( The new (perhaps final) version. )
So there, you can see the revision process in action. Sort of. *grin* That little bit of revision took about 2 hours of my time. All the kneading to make it smooth is hard! But worth it in the end.
Today will be different though. Today, I'll be adding brand new material. Kneading won't be necessary, but new material always takes me longer to write. I think part of this is because my brain is in editor/revision mode and new material requires the "creative" side of my brain, which has been turned off at this point. I have to kick that creative side awake, and it's grumpy and bitchy when it first wakes up. (And I don't drink coffee.)
I'm now up to a point where I need to add in more significant scenes from a main character's POV, so the revisions will likely slow down a little bit.
I figured I'd show you guys what I did with that "resurrected" scene the other day, sort of a "before" and "after" picture. This was the scene that I deleted in my zest to cut words from the manuscript:
( A long scene )
Now, as I said a few days ago, I couldn't just plop this scene back into the story because things had changed significantly enough that I had to put it into a different location. So the setting had changed, and the characters present, and . . . well, you get the idea. So, after plopping this scene as is into the appropriate new location, I had to knead it and meld it into place so that it fit and didn't feel out of place and when you're reading didn't feel like it had been inserted at a later time. Here's the new version:
( The new (perhaps final) version. )
So there, you can see the revision process in action. Sort of. *grin* That little bit of revision took about 2 hours of my time. All the kneading to make it smooth is hard! But worth it in the end.
Today will be different though. Today, I'll be adding brand new material. Kneading won't be necessary, but new material always takes me longer to write. I think part of this is because my brain is in editor/revision mode and new material requires the "creative" side of my brain, which has been turned off at this point. I have to kick that creative side awake, and it's grumpy and bitchy when it first wakes up. (And I don't drink coffee.)
