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madrobinsAnd yet again I discover something about my writing process that I hadn't identified before. I just finished the first draft of a story to submit to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deborahjross for the next Lace and Blade. In all modesty I must say: it sucks. It's going to not suck by the time I'm done with it, but right now it's mostly a collection of nicely phrased notes to myself about what the story is supposed to be. I know it's not right yet because it doesn't sing.
Sing? Oh please. But there's something to it nonetheless. I can't say why I know this story has the potential to work--it's a little like hearing a note, very distant, in the back of my head. And this morning, reading the lousy draft of the story, I could feel that note...very very very far away. And on thinking of it, I realized that the closer the story gets to being what it should be, the louder and more sure that note is. Sometimes the note isn't there at all (which is when the whole thing gets saved to the disk and forgotten about, sometimes forever, sometimes until I grow a little). Sometimes the note is there, but I can't find the right way to make it louder just then, and it goes back in the drawer. But at least there's a reason to keep carving away at the thing.
Back to the knife.
deborahjross for the next Lace and Blade. In all modesty I must say: it sucks. It's going to not suck by the time I'm done with it, but right now it's mostly a collection of nicely phrased notes to myself about what the story is supposed to be. I know it's not right yet because it doesn't sing.Sing? Oh please. But there's something to it nonetheless. I can't say why I know this story has the potential to work--it's a little like hearing a note, very distant, in the back of my head. And this morning, reading the lousy draft of the story, I could feel that note...very very very far away. And on thinking of it, I realized that the closer the story gets to being what it should be, the louder and more sure that note is. Sometimes the note isn't there at all (which is when the whole thing gets saved to the disk and forgotten about, sometimes forever, sometimes until I grow a little). Sometimes the note is there, but I can't find the right way to make it louder just then, and it goes back in the drawer. But at least there's a reason to keep carving away at the thing.
Back to the knife.