Sunday, January 11, 2009

Time to Get Rolling

I figured it was about time to write something again.
This weekend I have been working on my book, which has been horrific, I have to say I really despise read-throughs (as I call them). I've been reading- through my last project (as I call my writing exercises) since about, October, I want to say. I'm only on chapter seven which is about page 49. Well, yeah, I still want to re-write the last scene in the chapter, so I still would be on it.
Most of this weekend has been on what I call "the flashback chapters". I wanted to work very hard on those because, even though I hate to admit it, they are the most important chapters in the book. This only bugs me because, well, its a flashback, it should really not be used except for explanatory purposes. I'm not saying it's not there for those reasons, because it is, but it also portrays important themes in the book as well as introducing a character that readers have already met, but they have to read until the last page to learn that that character is the one they met in the flashback and has real value in the plot at all.
In all, my weekend has been fairly boring and I hope to be able to write a much more epic post next week (the post will be on Tuesday night next week because of the four day weekend).

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