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Her Prophet Blathers About Re-Writes [XIV]
Jun. 8th, 2014 02:17 pm~This morning I was awake for two whole hours passionately debating The Tranny Wars on one FB thread and Christian Sharia in America on another before I got up to make my coffee. When the exhaustion finally hit me – standing in the kitchen – I realized that this was a quite clear manifestation of my Avoidance, blathering on about subjects that do relate to the Work, but in a tangential fashion, basically a Diversion Strategy.
I shall now take some small action to rectify that....
I have thrown out all of Part Seven – “One Possible Future” and Addendum A: [Tales of the Vekkan Cults]. That's about 38,000 words out the window. Well, I haven't really 'thrown them out', just removed them from The Explanation. They will mostly get posted in a separate volume of Sisterhood stories, though some may simply remain unfinished.
This is my reasoning. Part Seven had become unwieldy; too many unfinished stories, too much rewriting to do, and, as so often happens with Science Fiction, much of the science has outstripped the fiction. Instead of trying to fix the whole mess, I have chosen to restart from square one.
About a month and half ago I started a new novella to take its place, with a single central character whose life covers the major epochs of The Sisterhood. I realized too that this will be more effective because, unlike the original Part Seven, it is a single narrative and therefore will flow more easily. With multiple stories and characters, there is the tendency to put the book down between tales.
With the removal of the multistory Part Seven, the rational for including Tales of the Vekkan Cults is largely gone. So, it goes, as well. [That moves B and C up to A and B]
Regarding the rest of The Explanation, Part Four: “Building a New Matriarchy – Grand Strategy” is still my most significant challenge. *sigh* Part Seven I can more or less pull out of my ass, but Part Four requires some fucking serious scholarly writing and, to honest, I'm not sure if I'm up to it. But I shall persevere.
..and so it is.
I shall now take some small action to rectify that....
I have thrown out all of Part Seven – “One Possible Future” and Addendum A: [Tales of the Vekkan Cults]. That's about 38,000 words out the window. Well, I haven't really 'thrown them out', just removed them from The Explanation. They will mostly get posted in a separate volume of Sisterhood stories, though some may simply remain unfinished.
This is my reasoning. Part Seven had become unwieldy; too many unfinished stories, too much rewriting to do, and, as so often happens with Science Fiction, much of the science has outstripped the fiction. Instead of trying to fix the whole mess, I have chosen to restart from square one.
About a month and half ago I started a new novella to take its place, with a single central character whose life covers the major epochs of The Sisterhood. I realized too that this will be more effective because, unlike the original Part Seven, it is a single narrative and therefore will flow more easily. With multiple stories and characters, there is the tendency to put the book down between tales.
With the removal of the multistory Part Seven, the rational for including Tales of the Vekkan Cults is largely gone. So, it goes, as well. [That moves B and C up to A and B]
Regarding the rest of The Explanation, Part Four: “Building a New Matriarchy – Grand Strategy” is still my most significant challenge. *sigh* Part Seven I can more or less pull out of my ass, but Part Four requires some fucking serious scholarly writing and, to honest, I'm not sure if I'm up to it. But I shall persevere.
..and so it is.
