The new plot structure is working very well. It's a much tighter story now. One of the side-benefits of this approach is it lets me cut a huge amount of distracting exposition and focus on the conflicts and characters. I'm now 36% of the way through on this pass and feel much better about the overall story, so I shouldn't have much trouble making another 1000 or more tomorrow morning. (I'm just editing, not writing very much new material, so that's not as crazy as it sounds).
As a nice bonus my impatient muse threw another couple fun ideas for other stories at me as a distraction while I worked. There's a great and reasonably light-hearted fantasy idea there that may just be my next project.
Posted by bill at January 27, 2008 04:42 PM