Spent last week making notes for the Wet Work rewrite. I didn’t get as far as I would have liked–but since when is that news?
On the positive side, ideas are flowing now. I have a firm grasp of what needs to be fixed in the first act. Turn out that I had all the pieces in all the right places, but on a few occasions, they just didn’t make the right moves. Not unlike setting up a masterful opening and middle game, then blowing the end game in chess.
Yeah, like I would know what a masterful opening and middle game looks like. My brother would have a thing or two to say about that, I’m sure.
Anyway, it’s interesting to note that I ran into a similar situation with a particular plot thread in Petra Released. In the rewrite, I didn’t change any of the players or locations, just what they said and did. Hmmm . . . is a pattern developing? I’ll let you know.
Now I turn my attention to my second act, which should pretty much square away the rest of the novel. The third act is short, and doesn’t seem to need much help–that I know of. Which isn’t saying much. I mean, really–this from the guy who just attempted a lame chess metaphor.
No updates for Write Club.
I’m out.
