Question - do you ever recycle the material that you cut from your early drafts into other things?
never, actually. usually once something ends up in the scrap-draft pile, it just composts away and i tend to let it.
i don't actually have a problem separating my own voice from the character's ~ i think it's more a problem of not being in the immediate moment with the character, rather. with this in particular i've noticed that i'm channeling Aldrich, really ~ turning this into some literary reflective autobiographical piece (for the character), which is not really what i want. i want it to be more immediate, less self-aware, and more experiencial rather than literary. i know what i want ~ i find i'm just not doing it because i'm writing so fast i'm just falling into the default of old narrative habits.
like i told jamie above. i think i'm gonna crank out a few more thousand ahead of schedule and then just try to slowwwww down. i already know that writing this particular character is easy if i just think through it more carefully (and right now i'm not).
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Date: 2006-11-02 09:45 pm (UTC)never, actually. usually once something ends up in the scrap-draft pile, it just composts away and i tend to let it.
i don't actually have a problem separating my own voice from the character's ~ i think it's more a problem of not being in the immediate moment with the character, rather. with this in particular i've noticed that i'm channeling Aldrich, really ~ turning this into some literary reflective autobiographical piece (for the character), which is not really what i want. i want it to be more immediate, less self-aware, and more experiencial rather than literary. i know what i want ~ i find i'm just not doing it because i'm writing so fast i'm just falling into the default of old narrative habits.
like i told jamie above. i think i'm gonna crank out a few more thousand ahead of schedule and then just try to slowwwww down. i already know that writing this particular character is easy if i just think through it more carefully (and right now i'm not).
this is me.
this is me blithering.
: o p