The annoying thing about taking an "and then, and then, and then" style just-get-through-it draft and turning it into proper narrative is that sometimes all I have to do is change the verb tenses because I wrote it out in full the first time.
But other times? Other times I run into something like this:
This provokes a sudden flurry of activity as Characters A, B, and C try to figure out what's both necessary and possible to bring with them on their search for [thing]. Character X eventually, in mild exasperation, suggests [action]. Character A and Character S head out to gather [supplies].
That's not narrative. That's an outline. And now I have to actually write the multiple paragraphs and extensive dialogue that I summarized while trying to just reach the damn ending.
*sigh*
But other times? Other times I run into something like this:
This provokes a sudden flurry of activity as Characters A, B, and C try to figure out what's both necessary and possible to bring with them on their search for [thing]. Character X eventually, in mild exasperation, suggests [action]. Character A and Character S head out to gather [supplies].
That's not narrative. That's an outline. And now I have to actually write the multiple paragraphs and extensive dialogue that I summarized while trying to just reach the damn ending.
*sigh*