Self-Indulgent Writing Entry
May. 15th, 2006 12:24 amI finally went through the files on my old computers at home, the veterans in recouperation, looking to combine current work on writing projects with lost bits. Disappointingly, there was very little of last summer's project I still wanted to use (always the trouble- a month passes and you've learned so much that everything you previously did is just too vile to look at), and only one the the beginings that held any real promise- the last and shortest of them.
Over the course of this year I decided to fuse last summer's project, dubbed Otherplace for convenience, with Dendrobite, a project from this year, in hopes of giving them enough substance to provide a reader with more than cheap atmospherics. It was mostly a project of substituting one female character with a new one. I sort of realized they were the same story all along. The following is just a scrap, too explanatory to serve as a proper beginning and entirley without the Dendrobite portion of this summer's novel, but it is in some ways the direction of the work.
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Over the course of this year I decided to fuse last summer's project, dubbed Otherplace for convenience, with Dendrobite, a project from this year, in hopes of giving them enough substance to provide a reader with more than cheap atmospherics. It was mostly a project of substituting one female character with a new one. I sort of realized they were the same story all along. The following is just a scrap, too explanatory to serve as a proper beginning and entirley without the Dendrobite portion of this summer's novel, but it is in some ways the direction of the work.
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