| Re: Was Sinderian switched with Winloki?
No, except for little bits and pieces, I have to write in chronological order, too. Since I let so many things change along the way, skipping ahead and writing those chapters could be a waste of time, as alterations I might make to earlier chapters could make the later parts of the book no longer viable.
On the other hand, though I don't skip forward, I will go back several chapters, in order to solve problems that crop up. Sometimes when I can't go forward, the only solution is to go backward.
The reason that I'm up and about right now, at (God help us) three in the morning, is because I've been writing and rewriting the same chapter over and over for the last few days and couldn't get it right. Then, just before bedtime, which was about 11 o'clock, I finally realized that the problem wasn't in the words I was using but that the chapter was fundamentally wrong. I then sat down and wrote up a bunch of notes on how to pretty much write a new version of the chapter from scratch.
By which time (about midnight) I was too tired to actually start on the rewrite, but too keyed up to go to sleep.
A pity I didn't have that revelation earlier this evening -- but at least I finally figured it out. |