the woes of a writer
Aug. 31st, 2004 05:58 pmAm working on the last scene of "Secrets" chapter 7. I have almost completely bollixed up my outline by this point -- part of what I intended to write already happened in chapter 6 (chapters 6 and 7 were originally intended to be only one chapter), and some other stuff I'd neglected to think about has suddenly become important. Bother bother bother.
Oh well. The Ginny-Tom interaction is laying groundwork for later developments including the confrontation in the Chamber itself, and I also managed to get Ginny vaguely curious about Percy's personal life, which will be useful later on when she finds him and Penelope snogging in an empty classroom. And it had the side benefit of getting Percy to the library on Sunday morning, where he will run into Harry and inadvertently send him off to Myrtle's bathroom, which is canon. So that's all good.
It always amuses me to compare my outlines to my finished chapters -- you can see how I got from one to the other, but I always go off track somewhere along the line. I don't really mind much afterward -- the new stuff is usually better than what I'd originally planned -- but it's irritating in process.
Oh well. The Ginny-Tom interaction is laying groundwork for later developments including the confrontation in the Chamber itself, and I also managed to get Ginny vaguely curious about Percy's personal life, which will be useful later on when she finds him and Penelope snogging in an empty classroom. And it had the side benefit of getting Percy to the library on Sunday morning, where he will run into Harry and inadvertently send him off to Myrtle's bathroom, which is canon. So that's all good.
It always amuses me to compare my outlines to my finished chapters -- you can see how I got from one to the other, but I always go off track somewhere along the line. I don't really mind much afterward -- the new stuff is usually better than what I'd originally planned -- but it's irritating in process.