I've said it before.
Jun. 17th, 2009 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritAnd I'll say it again:
Ben is going to kill me in my sleep one of these days.
Why, yes, I've just been randomly cruel to him once again. Why do you ask? I'm not even sure what purpose this scene serves in the book other than to feed my h/c kink and to actually show one of his flashbacks rather than just telling about it. Whether this is a legitimate function for a scene that goes on for 1500 words, I guess I'll leave up to my alpha readers.
However, having attained my requisite wordcount on the day, I feel I can now dive into the edits on the Cow Story. And the very first lines in the thing are problematic.
Why are they problematic, you ask? Because (a) I'm not sure they actually belong there; and (b) I love them.
They're great lines. They're a great HOOK. Were I to expand this into a novel, they would totally go into the query letter. But. Since the question they ask is answered right there in the very first scene...
Yeah. Kill your darlings. I know.
In other news, I've got the cutest, floofiest little juvenile House Finch on my thistle sock right now. He's so floofy that he looks bigger than the adults. And he's still sort of clumsy and not flying very well. Daawwwwwwwwww.
Oh, hey, speaking of the Cow Story, I'm thinking of posting it up for the usual suspects to pick over. Who wants to see it?
Ben is going to kill me in my sleep one of these days.
Why, yes, I've just been randomly cruel to him once again. Why do you ask? I'm not even sure what purpose this scene serves in the book other than to feed my h/c kink and to actually show one of his flashbacks rather than just telling about it. Whether this is a legitimate function for a scene that goes on for 1500 words, I guess I'll leave up to my alpha readers.
However, having attained my requisite wordcount on the day, I feel I can now dive into the edits on the Cow Story. And the very first lines in the thing are problematic.
Why are they problematic, you ask? Because (a) I'm not sure they actually belong there; and (b) I love them.
They're great lines. They're a great HOOK. Were I to expand this into a novel, they would totally go into the query letter. But. Since the question they ask is answered right there in the very first scene...
Yeah. Kill your darlings. I know.
In other news, I've got the cutest, floofiest little juvenile House Finch on my thistle sock right now. He's so floofy that he looks bigger than the adults. And he's still sort of clumsy and not flying very well. Daawwwwwwwwww.
Oh, hey, speaking of the Cow Story, I'm thinking of posting it up for the usual suspects to pick over. Who wants to see it?
