Oh hey there Guardians, I'm back. Back to Cornerstone back to chilling with Shana, Kalynn, Ben and Rafi, back to trying to teach myself how to edit a story. The biggest epiphany I've had since getting back to Guardians is that my beginning is no longer the beginning. I need a few chapters before where I've started, and perhaps even a part one. (But I really hope not.) I need more character development and more description of the world I'm trying to create. I need to ease readers into the plot and give information at a more gradual rate. The biggest problem is giving information while still making what I'm writing interesting. True, the skeleton is there but there is a lot to add and the transition from part one to part two needs to flow. I need to improve my pacing, tighten the plot in some places and expand in others. It's a little intimidating but it involves something I know how to do: writing.
After a year and a half I know that I can write and finish something. So I know that I can write excerpts that I think need to go into Guardians without actually trying to figure where exactly they fit. It's hard to shut up the voice in my head that's worrying about technicalities such as, well, what if I have to rework entire chunks of the plot and what if this really great scene is now null and void. I just want to write and write and write about these characters and this place and get the best sense of them that I possibly can. There may need to be an outline in there somewhere it's true but that's okay. I know enough about my writing process at this point that I should be comfortable figuring out how to finish another draft. Then I'll review what I have, outline, and refit everything into a cohesive novel (I hope).
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