Writing Log: Vicesteed Chapter 8
Feb. 27th, 2009 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraDeleted from Chapter 8
Old chapter wordcount: 2,493
New chapter wordcount: 1,900
Vicesteed Draft 1 wordcount: 207,877
Vicesteed Draft 2 current wordcount: 191,285
Which scene is it anyway?
Reason for deleting: This is kind of cool, and it could make sense, but it ended up being too difficult to maintain. This is the only scene where paper and trees are so rare. Everywhere else in the book, people are writing notes, sending invitations, etc etc.
Notes: Thought I'd cut a lot from this chapter, but the ratio is about constant. Deciding my self-assessment is skewed. Might need to combine this chapter, too, since it's so short.
Other writingy stuff:
* Made slight revisions to the second half of the new Chapter 5 to account for the discovery of clues that had been later, being earlier.
* Made the searches for specific phrases to fix from crit notes.
* Typed up handwritten notes (few as they are) for the subplot to Tree of Life, including Phil's squawk of laughter at the very idea of a plotline involving prostitutes unionizing. "What? They want a 10-dick work week?"
* Penthius freewriting, inspired by a blue quilted butterfly.
* Read WritersWeekly newsletter.
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Old chapter wordcount: 2,493
New chapter wordcount: 1,900
Vicesteed Draft 1 wordcount: 207,877
Vicesteed Draft 2 current wordcount: 191,285
Which scene is it anyway?
Paper was still used for handwritten correspondence and the most exclusive engraved invitations, but no mass printing used paper. She shuddered at the thought of such waste. Her ancestors had struggled for so long to finish the terraforming of Buckingham. They had barely been able to survive when they had fought the war for their independence.
Every tree on the planet could have been watered with blood.
Underneath the printing automata was a stack of paper that she had acquired. She was glad to be able to use her father's influence and money for the cause.
Reason for deleting: This is kind of cool, and it could make sense, but it ended up being too difficult to maintain. This is the only scene where paper and trees are so rare. Everywhere else in the book, people are writing notes, sending invitations, etc etc.
Notes: Thought I'd cut a lot from this chapter, but the ratio is about constant. Deciding my self-assessment is skewed. Might need to combine this chapter, too, since it's so short.
Other writingy stuff:
* Made slight revisions to the second half of the new Chapter 5 to account for the discovery of clues that had been later, being earlier.
* Made the searches for specific phrases to fix from crit notes.
* Typed up handwritten notes (few as they are) for the subplot to Tree of Life, including Phil's squawk of laughter at the very idea of a plotline involving prostitutes unionizing. "What? They want a 10-dick work week?"
* Penthius freewriting, inspired by a blue quilted butterfly.
* Read WritersWeekly newsletter.