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Sep. 6th, 2004 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naomikritzerEd took the girls out for a couple of hours this afternoon, and I worked on the new novel. 3110 words. My productivity was boosted by the fact that a good portion of this was the Summing Up of the Previous Installment. I have mixed feelings about these summaries as a reader. I used to hate them. Now that I'm older and my attention span is shorter, I get annoyed when they're not there because I often have forgotten critical details from the previous book. There's a legitimate narrative reason for the character to sum up what happened in the last book that will lead into a plot point. Nonetheless, I may rewrite the beginning significantly later on, who knows. Right now I'm not going to fret about it too much.
Ed is currently reading the Dark Tower series and pointed out to me that the best-selling author in the world prefers to use the Easily-Skippable Prologue sort of Summing Up. (Or rather, the "Argument." I'm not sure why King calls it the Argument.) He seemed to think this was a good argument in favor of doing that sort of summary. He may have a point, but this summary fit into the narrative so nicely, I'm loathe to take it out. We'll see. Tomorrow we forge ahead into uncharted (or at least, only roughly outlined) territory, in any case.
Ed is currently reading the Dark Tower series and pointed out to me that the best-selling author in the world prefers to use the Easily-Skippable Prologue sort of Summing Up. (Or rather, the "Argument." I'm not sure why King calls it the Argument.) He seemed to think this was a good argument in favor of doing that sort of summary. He may have a point, but this summary fit into the narrative so nicely, I'm loathe to take it out. We'll see. Tomorrow we forge ahead into uncharted (or at least, only roughly outlined) territory, in any case.
