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[pez]

Neither of my computers are good enough to play most of the newer games on the market. Which is probably a Very Good Thing.

I took another stab at [The City] today. I understand that not every chapter can be full of heart-stopping suspense or beautiful imageries, but I read back what I've written and have that "so what?" feeling. But I'll keep doing it. Today yet another plot twist came to mind, but it really will make things too complicated, and I'll get bricks thrown at me if I write it that way, I think. So for the sake of my mental and physical health, I'm taming that twist down into just a possibility. Some characters may start to think "Could it be [idea of twist]? No, that's not possible... right?", and that's all.

Anyway, I'll keep writing, and then go back and deface, tear apart, and stab it (the process otherwise known as editing) later. It's strange, back when I wrote Weiß Kreuz, I did almost no editing at all. With PoT I'm doing more and more of it, although I don't see my writing becoming any better as a result. =_= The fact remains that [Little Prince], my first PoT fic, is still the one people like the best. I'm not getting anywhere, am I?

Comments

[sinistera.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't the fact that you're doing more editting be a good thing? My teachers constantly insist that I edit more than grammatical and spelling errors (and I don't really listen to them on that). Are you writing The City as it flows, without a definite ending?

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I just can't seem to get it the way I want. It's the way I tell the story, uh... I dunno. Something's just wrong. It has a definite ending ^^ good that it has, because after 9 parts, I'd be screaming if I don't know how it'll end XD

[ex-semishade366.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're just thinking about the writing a lot more than you used to. You write to a very high standard and as you do more of it your standards are probably continuing to rise, even if you haven't noticed.

Also, if you do a lot of report writing for work etc, it can be very difficult to switch into a more free-flowing style later.