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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2013-10-09 11:53 pm

writing woes: same song, different verse *sigh*

I am pondering the stuff I still need to get through in "Trollstuck" and wondering if I should split the current chapter in half. The word count is going to get seriously ridiculous compared to previous chapters if I don't, and part 39 would make a good (okay, evil, but whatever) chapter break. On the other hand, I find the idea intensely annoying since I already split the climax chapter once and thought chapter 9 would be the second half of that, not the middle third, wtf.

Why do dialogue and action scenes always expand in the writing???

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Someday I may learn the skill of making an outline that doesn't open up like an accordion when it comes time to flesh sentences into scenes. Today is not that day.

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I think I will write the next scene and decide from there.