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I posted a while back, talking about overcoming a difficult scene, only now I just got over another difficult scene and finally broke into clear waters. I am on page 151 of my second draft, and I still have a lot of ground to cover. In my second draft, I have had to change two major events in my plot, only to find I like it much better this way. I came up with what I consider better answers to the questions it left me asking after finishing my first draft. While I struggle with the character relationships, simply because I know how they end up liking or disliking each other by the end of the book, I often find myself changing things where they act as if they’ve known each other for a long time, whereas I’m still early in the story and they haven’t developed the relationships they have now.<\/p>\n
But it’s keeping me on my toes, that and I’ve changed(added) a lot of scenery and really spent time filling out my book, making sense of scenes that left me<\/em> with questions, making clear scenes that had no structure or real importance to the reader. As the author, I felt they had importance, but a reader would not see it as I have(and do). Overall, I’ve been impressed at the radical change in my writing and description. I touched briefly on a few things before, and I’ve caught myself bringing into focus more minute details of the ongoing around the characters, placing the characters more into the scene, as before, I painted a picture, then let the actors have free reign of the entire plot, not bothering to have them interact with the ‘props’.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I took part in the writers meeting at Kenya’s house, met some great people and have a whole new excitement for writing, and completing my manuscript for submission. I feel almost 100% about my work so far, although I need to make a few changes as I have recently discovered some things about my plot. All that’s lacking is proper sentence structure, and I’m not sure how to string together actions with dialogue. After I get that figured out and probably a few other things, watch out world, do I have a story to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I posted a while back, talking about overcoming a difficult scene, only now I just got over another difficult scene and finally broke into clear waters. I am on page 151 of my second draft, and I still have a lot of ground to cover. In my second draft, I have had to change two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jake.transtrum.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}