I’m rewriting the first five chapters. These five chapters have been written for such a long time. They’ve been cut, moved and shuffled. Then, at some point, I just decided to write the rest of the damn novel.
So did all that and found that the first five chapter made less and less sense. So now I have to rewrite them. It’s not that they were bad, they just weren’t the story I finished writing. Conversations need to happen, others need to be deleted as they no longer make sense.
Writing is organic. I use an outline but things change. Characters demand scenes, questions must be answered, and people need to drop off the face of the earth never to see the light of a reader’s eyes.
More often than not I write later chapters to figure out the possibility of the previous ones. It helps me to sound out ideas against the ones in my head. This way I can smooth out motives and figure in the questions I want people to ask.
I can’t do this without my outline. I admit that skipping around sounds risky (I did manage to write the same scene twice once) but over all having the end before the beginning allowed me to plot my path. Crazy I know.
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