I'm sorry I wasn't more help with finding stuff to cut. Oh, no actually you were very helpful! I seriously couldn't take anything out, but you pointed out some repetitions and irrelevancies and stuff that really didn't add much. Thanks!
I was working on that very thing with my own fic yesterday and was thinking of you as I struggled. I was thinking about how if I showed it to someone else, they'd probably say, "I love that! Snarky banter, can't have enough of that!" But I didn't feel like it was adding to the story or taking it the direction I wanted it to go. Or it was distracting from the most important points. Or something. Yeah, it's tough. Especially when you don't know where the other person is going with something, and don't know what little thing seems irrelevant and easily dropped but may actually be an important plot point.
I tend to just make suggestions anyway and figure if it's important, the author will just ignore me and keep it in :)
Anyway, I was thinking, maybe you could e-mail me an outline of sorts, and explain your thoughts on where you want this story to go, what you want to focus on? Then I might be able to, at times, actually say something like, "This is brilliant and I love it, but it is bloating your story, so save it for the DVD remix." ;) Heh - yeah, good idea. I think I'm almost ready to send ch. 2. ::crossing fingers::
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Date: 2007-10-01 10:49 pm (UTC)Oh, no actually you were very helpful! I seriously couldn't take anything out, but you pointed out some repetitions and irrelevancies and stuff that really didn't add much. Thanks!
I was working on that very thing with my own fic yesterday and was thinking of you as I struggled. I was thinking about how if I showed it to someone else, they'd probably say, "I love that! Snarky banter, can't have enough of that!" But I didn't feel like it was adding to the story or taking it the direction I wanted it to go. Or it was distracting from the most important points. Or something.
Yeah, it's tough. Especially when you don't know where the other person is going with something, and don't know what little thing seems irrelevant and easily dropped but may actually be an important plot point.
I tend to just make suggestions anyway and figure if it's important, the author will just ignore me and keep it in :)
Anyway, I was thinking, maybe you could e-mail me an outline of sorts, and explain your thoughts on where you want this story to go, what you want to focus on? Then I might be able to, at times, actually say something like, "This is brilliant and I love it, but it is bloating your story, so save it for the DVD remix." ;)
Heh - yeah, good idea. I think I'm almost ready to send ch. 2. ::crossing fingers::