JS Cutler - REdrafting

Fictional person working on a real book.

[JS Cutler - REdrafting @JSCutlerWrites]

I'm severely out of touch.

Yesterday was the first time I learned there was such a genre as "cosy horror".

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@AuthorGFAllen Girls!

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Finally finished Draft Two of Part Two. One more part to redraft (though this is shorter and needs less structural work). Then Draft 3 is about taming the word count!

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#sadwriter. Spent three days on a pivotal scene. There's lots of great stuff in it, dialogue feels true to the characters, power shifts, themes are well woven in organically.

And it sucks.

Not because any individual element is bad, but strung together? it's just an infodump.

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@AuthorTRobare Omg this entire time I've been assuming I needed to read book 2 of Tails first. Sold.

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@DollyT222027 @AdamLVEllis @S_L_Falls I think that's a load bearing "rn" though. Everything is riding on them finding a way to make it profitable. They report on usage stats because it looks good to VCs, but they're not making profit. If they can't figure out how to get there, and soon, something will shift.

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@S_L_Falls @DollyT222027 I don't think there's any getting the toothpaste back in the tube but I'm cheered by the news the younger generations despise it.

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@ClaireLLLW81 Don't know. If I ever sleep I'll report back on the quality.

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@AlexArch_author Forcing subpar writing out would be failing. You were living.

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@AuthorTRobare @mike_mollman Oh no, I bought your book because of the spider suit. Am I doing this wrong?

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@DzintraSullivan I think you're doing enough. More would be overkill really.

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@AuthorTRobare @TAR_Kirk Do you really need all that oxygen tho?

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Yesterday I threw out the entire draft 1 version of the chapter. The second version is still rough but it already works so much better.

Basically, now instead of a pivotal scene resting on bad luck, it's based on a mistake the protag made eight chapters earlier.

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@AuthorTRobare Congratulations!

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Stupid panic of the day. Will people think it's weird if I describe marble as 'white'? Is that the sentence where they'll discover I'm a fraud?

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@realmattfalcon @Hart_Horrors For me, it's will it work for its intended audience?

Like I wasn't wowed by the Barbie movie but it's not meant for me and I think the people it is meant for would likely love it.

But then I'm the guy that Hundreds of Beavers was intended for, so what do I know?

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@stephenRB4 All of it. To me. Now.

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@SDDonovan @justcastellon And 849? Too mainstream, it's lost its edge now.

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The rewrites are definitely succeeding at making the novel better and dramatically failing at making it shorter.

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@caelanV I know that feeling!