a visit from my aunt; the endless woe of rewrites

[edenfalling]

So a week or two ago I got a call from my Aunt Jan reminding me that she was going to be in the Finger Lakes for a while to visit friends and do some winery touring, and would it be possible for her to drop by Ithaca and see me? We checked our schedules and determined that Sunday morning was the best time.

She called again on Friday saying she would be by "tomorrow morning," which panicked me briefly until I called and realized she'd just lost track of which day of the week it was. She was still coming by on Sunday, probably sometime between 9am and 10am.

And so it came to pass. :-)

I showed her around my apartment, and then we drove to the Commons, had brunch at Waffle Frolic (so good! so filling!), and caught up a little on what we'd each been doing lately. Then we went back to my place so I could give her a bottle of cranberry wine which is the early half of my sister's Xmas gift (wine being a little tricky to take to Spain... *sigh*) and she could refill her water bottle. We headed back into town, she dropped me off at the smoke shop (I gave her the three-penny tour), and she headed on down to New Jersey to visit my parents. I am told she arrived safely, so that's good.

Other than that? Very boring day.

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In writing news, I'm still editing What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed). I thought I could cut the story back, but I forgot, of course, that I am me and my response when rereading a story is generally to say, "Oh, wow, I was totally shorthanding that whole scene; if I actually wrote it out instead of summarizing it into a single paragraph, it would highlight theme X so nicely, get character Y on-page briefly, and..." and the story invariably expands. *sigh* Thus far, Team 8 have decided to pop up. (Their appearance is less random than it sounds, I promise.)

On that note, I am debating whether to insert a completely new scene instead of just fleshing out pre-existing stuff. See, in my head, during the months between Naruto's return from Wave Country and Sasuke's first time at the monthly meeting in Kakashi's office, Sakura and Naruto drag him to a few get-togethers with the Rookie Nine, Team Gai, and Sai. Writing the first of those dinners would A) be interesting, B) show Sasuke interacting with more people, and C) help bridge that otherwise large time-jump... but on the other hand, I don't really want to write a whole new scene and I'm not sure it would add anything on a thematic level that I couldn't imply by mentioning (in a few lines of dialogue or a scene-setting paragraph) that the dinners happen.

Nrgh.

*flees to write Angel Sanctuary fic instead*

Comments

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

While I liked your story as is, it would be very interesting to see those dinners and it would make the time frame less of a jump. Also it would further ground Sasuke in as a leaf nin again

[edenfalling]

Yeah, I know! Which is why I want to write one of the dinners. On the other hand, I'd have to write a whole new scene, and, well, that would be work. *flaps hands* It is not much of a secret that I am horribly lazy.