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Nov. 4th, 2010 01:43 pmI've sorted 200 scribbled notes. This means I know how my main characters interweave and where my biggest deficiencies are in this particular narrative.
It's an odd way of doing things for me. It's how I handle non-fiction, usually. I don't know what it will mean for the style of the narrative. It's important, though, because there is so much information that I need to communicate and I don't want the readers to work at reading information: I want them to be enjoying a novel. I've fitted information in with character arcs and seasons and landscape and slotted them in together and hopefully made it all work.
The proof will be in the writing. If it all comes alive, then my NF writing approach works for my fiction. Which tangles me, I'm afraid. I like keeping the parts of my brain further apart than this.
Anyhow, I have to give it up for the afternoon. The cardiologist beckons and I've run out of excuses to delay going.
It's an odd way of doing things for me. It's how I handle non-fiction, usually. I don't know what it will mean for the style of the narrative. It's important, though, because there is so much information that I need to communicate and I don't want the readers to work at reading information: I want them to be enjoying a novel. I've fitted information in with character arcs and seasons and landscape and slotted them in together and hopefully made it all work.
The proof will be in the writing. If it all comes alive, then my NF writing approach works for my fiction. Which tangles me, I'm afraid. I like keeping the parts of my brain further apart than this.
Anyhow, I have to give it up for the afternoon. The cardiologist beckons and I've run out of excuses to delay going.