Gah!

[clarentine]

I would have to run slap into an entire expository infomercial about clothes and shoes right at the start of the next bit of word count. Oh, well. It's a first draft. It's supposed to be bloated, and extra data gives me more to work with when I come back on revision.

Right?

::growls::

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[ter369.livejournal.com]

I would have to run slap into an entire expository infomercial about clothes and shoes right at the start of the next bit of word count. Oh, well. It's a first draft.

Barbara Hambly said something that hit me as entirely clever, on a panel about writing in other creators' series (Star Wars in her case). She writes a chapter of just the infomercial/previously-on-Star-Wars stuff. During the second draft she extracts sentences from that chapter, sprinkling them early on in the manuscript.

I shall now make myself do this on my current project, and I have you to thank for the reminder. Historical fiction is haaaard and these are ways to inform/educate/not-bog-down.

[clarentine]

Oooh. Clever! I may have to steal that myself.

(And what you said about historical fiction--yeah. I have a feeling this one is going to kick my butt.)

[ter369.livejournal.com]

(And what you said about historical fiction--yeah. I have a feeling this one is going to kick my butt.)

I'm balancing this, too, as there's historical fiction (tapestry rich, driven by details excavated from source materials) and then there's adventure in a historical setting (a lighter hand with the denseness). I want to write the latter, but the research becomes interesting in itself ... and it's not necessarily a story, though it is compelling.

[clarentine]

Someone at WFC (Paul Park?) said that there are as many histories are there are people who lived through them. (looks at notes again) Yeah, it was Park.