Editing Relief
The first third of Gold Hill (working title) was a mess. Out of sequence, out of time, untransitioned, and just plain messy.
I liked the individual scenes well enough, but their relationships to each other left me with my head in my hands asking if I really could write at all.
They were so disorganized my overwhelming feeling was shame. It was the first novel I’d written in scenes and I wrote them out of order. I really hope its the last novel to demand being written that way. If it isn’t, I’m buying shares in Bayer and Valium now.
Just when I was planning how to tell my editing partner that we might want to scrap this one, something great happened.
The middle third is really decent.
It flows. It relates. I progresses the story and relationships and develops key elements. It does its job.
Talk about a big sigh of relief! I watched my editing partner make a few ticks here and there for typos and dialogue tags and then move on. Yes!
Faith has returned. Energy is renewed. The sun burst out from behind the clouds. Choirs sang. Really. Well, for me they did.
I know there are two scenes in the last third that are trouble, but today I am happy. Today is a good day.
thats excellent news! So nice to get to the middle and realize its not all a mess huh? I am looking forward to hearing how that last third goes.
Hang on, the start and the end are in trouble but the middle is fine? Isn’t it normally the other way around?