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I think I just finished reading my 2011 NaNovel. My eyes are still burning. ._.
So some things I found out:
1) The names of one of the protagonists and the main antagonist are confusingly similar.
2) I hate my main charrie.
3) The charrie who I thought was oh-so BA is actually a very annoying, stuck-up person.
4) My plot is terrible and full of a bunch of unnecessary stuff.
Anyways, that was probably the easiest part, reading. Next I'll try to write an outline, fixing the one I wrote based on The First Draft. Then I'll add in a bunch of stuff and take away a bunch of stuff. Then Character Development. Then History Checking (never writing a Historical Fiction ever. Again.). Oh, and I still have to decide whether my novel will be just steampunk or steampunk-fantasy. Oh the choices.
Well, I'm probably going to have a hard time sleeping tonight, thinking of The Genre and The Genre only.
So how's you guys' editing going? And what's your system; maybe I'll steal it from you. :P
(And now I let off some steam by writing fanfic which I haven't done in a while...)
submitted by Olive
(December 30, 2011 - 6:53 pm)
(December 30, 2011 - 6:53 pm)
...Doesn't everyone hate their main characters by the end of NaNo?
Alas, this is what editing is for. Best of luck!
I stopped doing NaNo by the end of the first week (things... happened), but generally speaking my editing process goes something like this:
1. Screech mental obscenities at the story for a week.
2. Reread.
3. Note down everything that needs to be fixed which, often, is the whole thing.
4. In a notebook, jot down possible solutions.
5. Rewrite, starting from the very beginning.
6. Repeat as necessary.
There's no easy way to do it unfortunately. Listening to Evita (Mandy Patinkin AND Patti Lupone?! Yes please!) has proved immensely helpful in my latest editing endeavor (which, sad though I am to admit it, is the TMR fic which has consumed so much of my creative process of late. Boo.) but YMMV.
(December 30, 2011 - 9:04 pm)
TOP!
(December 30, 2011 - 10:30 pm)
So what I've done so far with my NaNo is I finished writing the (vague) outline, then I cut out all the unneccessary parts that led to nowhere. Now instead of having 40000-ish words, I have 30000-ish words. :)
(January 2, 2012 - 3:19 pm)