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clarentineYou know what the problem with legacy scenes is? Not just adapting them to the current conditions of the novel--no, that I've more or less gotten used to. The real problem is in trying to figure out, after reasoning how it happens, whether it still needs to happen.
If your math indicates it would have been more efficient to determine the need prior to doing the work on the how, you are correct.
This is what they mean when they talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees.
All of the foregoing is not to say that the effort was wasted, or that the scene in question won't be retained. I just wish I'd spent some of the past day's thrashing on the need, first. And, on the plus side of the ledger, I have indeed worked out how the scene could have taken place in the mature context of the novel. (That would be mature, as in the novel's getting closer to what I meant it to be, rather than a juvenile collection of angst.) Now to see if I end up using it!
If your math indicates it would have been more efficient to determine the need prior to doing the work on the how, you are correct.
This is what they mean when they talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees.
All of the foregoing is not to say that the effort was wasted, or that the scene in question won't be retained. I just wish I'd spent some of the past day's thrashing on the need, first. And, on the plus side of the ledger, I have indeed worked out how the scene could have taken place in the mature context of the novel. (That would be mature, as in the novel's getting closer to what I meant it to be, rather than a juvenile collection of angst.) Now to see if I end up using it!
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Date: 2008-12-02 06:19 pm (UTC)