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10/30/03: I don't want no dissention, just dramatic tension.
Word count: 35922
Over 1800 words tonight! All one scene, in which Clarity is menaced by a mob and has to run for her life. Or does she? She's not sure, but whether she really had to run or not, she ran, and I've left her locked outside on the roof of her apartment building, wondering whether she's more afraid that someone will find her... or that no one will. A good, tense scene -- but way too long. The chapter's now nearly 6000 words long, already one of the longest chapters I've written, and there are still three scenes to go.
On the other hand, there's no reason a chapter can't be 10,000 or 12,000 words long... but I still think this scene has more words in it than it deserves. I'm going to have to cut it back.
But not this week.
Right now it's way past time for bed. Good night.
Posted 10/30/2003 22:25 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]
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