It’s strange rewriting the scenes from the old novel that I’m going to incorporate into Eyes on the Mountain. I’m retelling events from a new character’s point of view, and things look mighty different.
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Progrep 32: POV Change
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Progrep 31: Reading to Rip
I’m reading the old unpublished novel to determine which seams to rip and which bits to repurpose in Eyes on the Mountain. It’s been decades since I looked at it, and I’m reacting differently now to the old characters; I’m liking ones I didn’t much, and I’m irritated by ones I used to find interesting. That’s shaping my thinking about which of them will appear in Eyes.
There are two fourteen-year-olds I quite enjoy, and one cranky eighty-year-old woman whose point of view I appreciate now in ways I didn’t before. But man, I really did a crap job on the villain; he’s over-the-top crazy unbelievable and is definitely not invited to the new novel.
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Progrep 30: Write Night
I write in the morning. In the evening, I think about the written and to be written. But yesterday I wrote in the morning and in the evening. I accidentally tricked myself into it; I thought I was sitting down just to make a few notes. I ended up writing two short scenes.
That made for sweet dreams.
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Progrep 29: And So Ends . . .
Maggie just said “To hell with it” and grabbed the deadly object.
Almost ready for Part Two now.
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Progrep 28: Low Tech
The kids are waving brooms around to ward against invisible Weird Things.
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Progrep 27: Question
Spencer asks, “So, are we thinking this is the normal sort of trauma a kid might suffer when his dad dies and his almost-uncle is an idiot?”
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Progrep 26: When Worlds Collide
I’ve been thinking for a few days that events in the current novel dovetail with events in something I wrote years ago but never published. I see clearly how to rip the heart out of the other text to feed this one’s growing wings.
Well, gentler: I’ll herd the precious beasties aboard, aim for Beta, and hope we’re not hurtling toward doom.
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Progrep 25: Picking Up Speed
Six pages this morning. Things are clicking along. The characters are trying to be brave, but it’s getting harder for them. Weirdness is coming thick and fast.
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Progrep 24: Brief Respite
I gave the widow and her two children a brief moment of peace at the end of their scene today. That moment won’t last. In the next scene, Kyle’s going to show her his drawing of the dead dog.
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Progrep 23: Word Count
I hit 24,000 words today. Lots left to do, but I count that as progress.
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