There was a concert this week. A new South Park episode. Knotts Scary Farm opened last night. The only night I didn't do anything was on Monday (I go to my boyfriend's to watch TV since I don't have cable, and South Park night turned into Gotham night, as well). This is the point in the blog post where I'm supposed to tell you that this is going to be a short post since I didn't get much writing done.
Oh really, suckers??
I don't know what's wrong with me. Sorry.
Anyway, I think on Monday I had about 25,000 to 30,000 words. Now I'm at 52,000 and not even done. How did I do that, one may ask? I totally cheated. Not really. I used the old Frankenstein method. Some parts I wrote this week, and then other parts I pasted in from the first manuscript. It sounds terrible, I know, but there were certain parts of the first manuscript that I thought were really well written and I really liked them. So I wanted to include them. While that also meant a lot of rewriting and gluing together of the old and new, it was worth it. I'm already liking this version a lot more than the old one. I think my main problem with the first manuscript was the fact that there was so much time between scenes. For example, one scene I was looking at this week took place months after the last scene. I almost hit myself. Months! You understand that we're in the middle of a war, right, Bree? I'm pretty sure the other side isn't going to wait around for months while their enemy prepares themselves and their land. So, among other goals, I've tried to tighten up the timeline, to make everything happen as quickly as possible. So far, I think I've done a pretty good job.
Another huge change from this manuscript is that a certain character has been turned into a good character. In the first manuscript, he/she inexplicably went from being super evil to such a sweetheart. He/she was another big reason I wanted to rewrite. I realized that I really had no endgame for him/her. I didn't know what I was going to do with him/her. So I thought about it most of the summer, because, in my original ideas, I was planning on killing one of the main characters at the end of the series. But then I started having cold feet about that. I wasn't sure if it would work and I didn't know how my heart would handle it. So I started looking for a scapegoat of sorts. And I found one. And the ending, all of a sudden, made sense. But I had to get this character to be good. And that's when another idea came to me, one that I sort of kind of loved. So now I'm following that line of thinking, and I really like it. I'm not sure how it'll work with readers, but I adore it. So take that.
But that's it! I've been writing! Yay! Now I should get going so I can prepare lessons and think about why Knott's Scary Farm feels like sucking this year. Seriously, if any of my readers live in Southern California, let me warn you: we waited in one line for about an hour and fifteen minutes, and then another one for about an hour. We managed to get through two mazes before fifty billion people came in the park. I don't know what happened this year, but it was a mess. We usually go the first night and are able to go through all the mazes before 11 p.m. We left around that time after waiting for an hour for Trapped, which we got a refund for because "people were vomiting and freaking out and that takes time to get everything cleaned up".
Right. Well, I can't fault them for their scare tactics!
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