| Quick post: *sighs* |
[May. 2nd, 2008|02:42 am] |
Rewrite is still on full steam ahead, despite interference of Paper O'Doom and finals and exams and a general feeling of really needing to just *stop*.
It has been a weird ride this week. I realized toward the end of last week, on Saturday, that I wasn't going to have to rewrite as drastically as I thought I needed to. That the framework I built in AST is pretty damn fine in places, and will support reuse.
Today, I first realized that I had a massive canon inconsistency, that the all-important first Flying Lesson isn't when it should be, and I still have no idea why I wrote it that way. I thought, okay, shift it, and move the surrounding scenes and so on elsewhere. Then I snagged on something and went back to my growing, rough timeline to hammer some details out, and ended up realizing that Antares probably shouldn't (needn't?) go to the Forbidden Forest for detention at all in AST, and so most of the chapter in which he ends up doing so will need to be heavily rewritten or just cut entirely.
I'm the one making the decisions. Cutting that chapter is a solid way for me to get closer to my rewriting goal(s), a major one of them being to try and make AST and AMF into one seamless story. It still hurts to think of cutting out that chapter, those events, that entire tiny sub-arc.
And just now, I've realized that, in light of my changes and goals, another sub-arc will need to go. It's the bit where Quirrell tries to make Antares do something or other after accusing him of cheating on his DADA exam. It's one of those bits that didn't make too much sense if you looked at it too closely in its original setting, and makes fuck all sense now. And yet...*clings momentarily, then cuts*. |
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