AQATWA update

[inverarity]

I feel like I should post something about AQATWA every now and then.

I won't say I am suffering writer's block, exactly, but I'm stuck and have been having a devil of a time getting past this sticky point to the parts that are, uh, more interesting.

Now, standard writing advice is that if there is a part of your story that's boring you, it will almost certainly bore your readers, so you should cut it. But I really need this transitional chapter, so I am trying to figure out how to cut the part that's aggravating me while keeping the important stuff.

Another piece of writing advice is that if you're stuck on one part, write a different chapter. You don't have to write everything in order. But I've always written in a linear fashion, and I can't seem to make myself break that pattern.

So, yeah, not a lot of progress in the past couple of weeks. :/ But I mean to plug away some more this weekend!

Comments

[lunacorva.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could add something to the chapter to make it more entertaining. Personally I've found using humour in transitional chapters tends to work fairly well and it seemed to work for J.K as well. One of the reasons her filler chapters were tolerable was because the banter between the characters was so fun to read.

[rheymus.livejournal.com]

Chapter N has exciting, interesting stuff. You enjoy it. You have had so much feedback from the Audience that you can make a reasonable extimate that a large percentage of the Audience will njoy it too.

Milord, you have a cunning plan that chapter M+2 will also be Njoyable. BUT, you need chapter N+1 to exposit the FUNDAMENTAL laws of Magick (FlM) such that Chapter N+2 goes the right way and Audience don't feel cheated because you pulled Fundamental laws of Magick (FlM) out of your ass at the last minute.

Write Chapter N+2. NEXT, make a list of FlM you need to pull out of your arse to make chapter N+2 work. THIRD, write chapter N+1 Xposition as if these NEW FlM were there all the time.

Sergei - he say: Simples!

AQATWA update

[ingen123.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I do so enjoy transitional chapters, they provide an insight into the world of the story, which can be neglected in action-packed chapters. I promise to enjoy it thoroughly even if you take Alexandra on a shopping trip for 10,000 words (not that you couldn't make it interesting).