| stormdream ( @ 2009-06-07 01:10:00 |
I went through the entire printed manuscript of Lusitania and added some bright pink post-it notes where a scene either needs adding or heavy adjustment.
The rest of the MS is marked up anyway. I printed it out after a friend looked it over and made some suggestions; the first pass I made was mostly grammatical, some word tweakage, etc. The last couple of months I've pulled it out at different times and made plot notes, character stuff, and the like.
The net is crawling at the moment because I'm transferring some new music from the lappy to the desktop (which has an ungodly amount of stuff on it already that I'd forgotten about), so I can't transfer the ms over at the moment. The two biggest changes right now are a revamped preludium (yeah, I'm too fancy to call it prologue) and opening chapter, the latter of which, I hope, will fix all the issues with Delaney.
Oh, Delaney.
Generally I like her. I really do. She's kind of rough, a bit socially awkward when it comes down to it, and likes big guns way too much, but two beta readers said that they couldn't really get a feel for her early on. Apparently she's fine in later chapters, but we need more earlier?
I wasn't too thrilled with the opening scenes anyway, so I came up with something that, if I do this right, will transition from creepy to action-y. It'll provide a better look at Delaney and her environment.
I hope.
And from there it's a few scenes here and there, lots of itty bitty technical things...I'll give myself a few weeks, then...who knows...
The rest of the MS is marked up anyway. I printed it out after a friend looked it over and made some suggestions; the first pass I made was mostly grammatical, some word tweakage, etc. The last couple of months I've pulled it out at different times and made plot notes, character stuff, and the like.
The net is crawling at the moment because I'm transferring some new music from the lappy to the desktop (which has an ungodly amount of stuff on it already that I'd forgotten about), so I can't transfer the ms over at the moment. The two biggest changes right now are a revamped preludium (yeah, I'm too fancy to call it prologue) and opening chapter, the latter of which, I hope, will fix all the issues with Delaney.
Oh, Delaney.
Generally I like her. I really do. She's kind of rough, a bit socially awkward when it comes down to it, and likes big guns way too much, but two beta readers said that they couldn't really get a feel for her early on. Apparently she's fine in later chapters, but we need more earlier?
I wasn't too thrilled with the opening scenes anyway, so I came up with something that, if I do this right, will transition from creepy to action-y. It'll provide a better look at Delaney and her environment.
I hope.
And from there it's a few scenes here and there, lots of itty bitty technical things...I'll give myself a few weeks, then...who knows...