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Home > "Dark Moon", Projects, The Writing Process > Adapting On The Fly … The Winds Of Change Blow

Adapting On The Fly … The Winds Of Change Blow

February 8, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment Go to comments

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I was almost finished with my rough edit of the first draft for Under The Darkened Moon when I stopped. I mean I was literally on the last chapter when I stopped.

Why did I stop? Because I decided to go all the way back to the beginning … and then some. I was not happy with the way the story started in Chapter 1. So I made it Chapter 2 and added a new Chapter 1 taking place eighteen and also fifteen years previously to add some context to the main character. This context and new chapter I believe will enable me to delete some of the text in later chapters which flushes out the backstory of the main POV character and make things flow better from start to finish.

We will see. A lot of cleanup is going to be needed because of this change.

Categories: "Dark Moon", Projects, The Writing Process Tags: Backstory, Change Blow, Cleanup, Darkened Moon, Delete, Fifteen Years, First Draft, Fly, Lot, New Chapter, Pov, Winds Of Change
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